Re: Special character in Domain name

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 01:32:04 -0600

"Bill Williams" <bw@innerscale.com> wrote in message
news:#XqY3d1$DHA.4080@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Herb, for the rapid response. In the domain, I also have a Win2K
> member server running SQL2K and the NT4 server is running Exch 5.5. Can
you
> think of any ramifications in regards to SQL or Exch if I change the
domain
> name? I assume there's no good alternative to going to each workstation
and
> removing/joining the new domain?

I cannot, but you might better post that specific question in the SQL and
Exchange
groups -- since I have NEVER used a long, or special character name I have
never
had to change one nor experienced the oddities engendered by such use so
someone
else might know better of problems.

Note: One of the reason for limiting the NetBIOS name to 14 (not 15)
characters,
is that there was some odd problem with a 15 character name and SQL server
(in the past, perhaps not currently.)

Technically ALL NetBIOS names are 16 characters EXACTLY but the OS,
and applications pad out the machine name to 15 characters and use the 16th
to differentiate one service from another on the same machine.

There was some issue about even that 15th character.

It is also common "shorthand" to speak of machine names as being "NetBIOS
names" even though that is not technically true: Machine names are used to
derive or FORM the Netbios names used on the network. 

-- 
Herb Martin
>
> "Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
> news:OuW8aD1$DHA.552@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I have long recommended not using anything except INITIAL Alphabetic
> > and up to 13 additional characters (14 total) of Alphanumeric.
> >
> > The above is more restrictive than the RULES but will keep you out of
> > trouble.
> >
> > Rename the domain while it is still NT4 (while you can easily do so.)
> >
> > -- 
> > Herb Martin
> > "Bill Williams" <bw@innerscale.com> wrote in message
> > news:uoefst0$DHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > I have a 50 user lan running NT-4 and the Domain name has an
underscore
> in
> > > it. I need to add a new server and migrate to Win2003 and AD. My plan
> was
> > to
> > > install NT on the new server as a BDC, then promote it to PDC and
> upgrade
> > to
> > > 2003.  Could anyone advise if the underscore in the Domain name is
> likely
> > to
> > > cause grief in the process or the future?  If so, should I just create
a
> > new
> > > Domain and use ADMT?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bill
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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