Upgrade from W2K Server to Server 2003 "gotchas"...

It began with an inability to run Update for my Win2000 Advanced Server....

After spending far too much time researching that and trying to fix userdata
persistence, I decided that it was time to just upgrade to Server 2003.

I put the CD in and installed "over" the existing Win2000 Advanced Server
because you can't simply upgrade!??!

Thus, all my data is just fine, thank you, but, there were no Users or
Computers. Makes sense.

So, everything gets set up. I go to the first workstation and try to logon.
I did it, but not until I had hopped through a lot of weird hoops.

Of course, the Administrators password on the workstation is "different"
than the new server password - the new server following the strong password
protocol of upper/lower alpha and numeric characters.

I finally got the Administrator logged on from the workstation to the new
server. Then, I joined the new domain and tried to add the first user.

It appears that a whole new profile was created. So, I did the whole copy
the folders from user's directories to the new one. That worked, but all
the applications wanted to be reinstalled.

So, I did the registry edit and pointed the logon to the old user directory.
That worked. Now, the first workstation logs on just fine and looks and
acts just the way it did before, but with perhaps a noticeable decrease in
wait times.

On to the second workstation; mine. I've spent all day and tried all the
above and then some.

I can ping the gateway, the server, the first workstation. I can logon to
my local machine accounts (Administrator and mine) but not the network
accounts. I can see the accounts listed in the console and can even (sort
of) change the passwords.

But that doesn't really get me anywhere because, I can't get the machine to
join the domain. No matter what account I logon with I get the same error.
"Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error
has occurred: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.
OK"

Well, no, not OK.

I'll need at some point to also deal with changing my logon from the old,
lowercase, seven letter password to a new upper/lower case + number format.

Thank you, in advance, for any light shed on this dark little issue.....

For Now,

Gib Curry


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