Re: Nt4 Auth w/2000 Native mode?

FieldTechBrad wrote: 
Okay lets try to clear this up..

Novanet is a remote backup software package that has a server client relationship. All of the clients sit on external domain controllers in other business so they are all different domains that we are working with.

We have the server software setup for testing on 3 different places. There are 2 servers in 1 domain, 1 configured in native mode and one configured in mixed mode both windows 2000. We will call this Domain A. There is an external home office backup server that is windows 2000 on a different domain in mixed mode called Domain B. All of the clients are on Domains C,D,E etc.

The NT4 PDC on Domain C can backup successfully with the same username and password to Domain B (mixed mode seperate domain) and to the mixed mode server in Domain A(same one the native mode domain is on) but has authentication failures to the native mode server in Domain A(Clean install of windows 2000 just service packs etc, no advanced security has been set up).

This is the problem I am having. It can authenticate to other servers in mixed mode but not to the one in native mode, and I wanted to know if there is anything that stops a NT4 PDC from authneticating with a windows 2000 Domain in native mode, and if so, what options are there to change so that I do not have to reinstall windows again. Thank you.

You cannot have a Domain with one server in native mode and the others in mixed mode. A Domain is *either* in native mode *or* in mixed mode. Can you please say *why* you think that one server is in native mode and the others in mixed mode? If one server *appears* to be in a native mode Domain and the other servers *appear* to be in a mixed mode Domain then something is seriously wrong with your Domain. I guess one way it could appear to be this way would be if the DC *supposedly* in native mode is unable to replicate with the other DCs, which could then appear to be in mixed mode.

The authentication problems could, I guess, be a result of the mixed/native mode problem.

Cheers,

Cliff

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