Re: DNS/Netbios Name
- From: "Jorge de Almeida Pinto" <SubstituteThisWithMyFullNameSeperatedByDots@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:56:28 +0100
See also: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2005/11/24/154.aspx
the forest root domain can be renamed. Unlike other domains in the forest
you cannot restructure it or transfer the "forest root domain role" to
another domain
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"Fredrik" <internal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a customer whos domain is "badly" named.
> Root domain named, ab.local who's netbios name is Root_AB
> Child domain named, corp.ab.local netbios name is Corp_AB
>
> I know that this isn't "best practise" and so do my customer. I need to
> provide him with information about what will not work correctly when
> things are named this way and what possible issues are there with this
> configuration in the future. All I can find is recommendations about
> keeping the netbios name uniform with the first part of the domain name,
> but I can't find any information listing possible issues about this. So is
> this just a recommendation or can (will) there be problems using this
> configuration?
>
> Here is the info:
> "Assigning DNS Names to Create a Domain Hierarchy"
> Computers that are not running Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000
> software will display and accept NetBIOS names, whereas computers running
> Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 software will display and accept DNS
> names. This can lead to confusion on the part of your users and
> administrators. You should only use unmatched NetBIOS and DNS names if:
> . You want to migrate to a new naming convention on your network.
> . You are upgrading a NetBIOS name that contains non-standard characters
> but you want the DNS name to have all standard characters.
>
>
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