Upgraded from nt4 to 2003... domain name question
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James
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:47 am    Post subject: Upgraded from nt4 to 2003... domain name question Reply with quote
We upgraded from nt4 to 2003 and changed the domain name. We used "company1"
for the domain name in nt40. We actually changed our company name about a
year ago so we used the "company1" as the 2003 netbios domain name and used
"company2.msft" as the new fully qualified internal domain name. I can
access things using the company1\username and password or the
company2.msft\username and password fine.

My question is when it comes to the logon screen on my windows xp
workstations. Like before the old workstations have the "company1" domain
name when you login which is fine. When i setup a new workstation the other
day it asked me to add the computer to the domain and i chose to add it to
"company2.msft" and everything was fine. After the xp install i noticed when
i went to login to the workstation it actually showed the "company1" netbios
name.

I understand that both na.mes are taking me to the same domain, but hoped it
would start showing the "company2.msft" name on the new workstations since
we did change the company name.

Any help would be great.

Thanks
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Steven L Umbach
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:22 am    Post subject: Re: Upgraded from nt4 to 2003... domain name question Reply with quote
If you are at Windows 2003 forest functional level you can rename your
domain netbios name as per the link below. Otherwise as far as I know you
will have to live with it the way it is. Users can also logon via unp as in
user@mydomain.com. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

"James" <acidflea@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
We upgraded from nt4 to 2003 and changed the domain name. We used
"company1" for the domain name in nt40. We actually changed our company
name about a year ago so we used the "company1" as the 2003 netbios domain
name and used "company2.msft" as the new fully qualified internal domain
name. I can access things using the company1\username and password or the
company2.msft\username and password fine.

My question is when it comes to the logon screen on my windows xp
workstations. Like before the old workstations have the "company1" domain
name when you login which is fine. When i setup a new workstation the
other day it asked me to add the computer to the domain and i chose to add
it to "company2.msft" and everything was fine. After the xp install i
noticed when i went to login to the workstation it actually showed the
"company1" netbios name.

I understand that both na.mes are taking me to the same domain, but hoped
it would start showing the "company2.msft" name on the new workstations
since we did change the company name.

Any help would be great.

Thanks
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James
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Upgraded from nt4 to 2003... domain name question Reply with quote
So you are saying that the clients will only show the netbios name on the
login windows?



"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
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Quote:
If you are at Windows 2003 forest functional level you can rename your
domain netbios name as per the link below. Otherwise as far as I know you
will have to live with it the way it is. Users can also logon via unp as
in user@mydomain.com. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

"James" <acidflea@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23WAw9d18EHA.2124@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
We upgraded from nt4 to 2003 and changed the domain name. We used
"company1" for the domain name in nt40. We actually changed our company
name about a year ago so we used the "company1" as the 2003 netbios
domain name and used "company2.msft" as the new fully qualified internal
domain name. I can access things using the company1\username and password
or the company2.msft\username and password fine.

My question is when it comes to the logon screen on my windows xp
workstations. Like before the old workstations have the "company1" domain
name when you login which is fine. When i setup a new workstation the
other day it asked me to add the computer to the domain and i chose to
add it to "company2.msft" and everything was fine. After the xp install i
noticed when i went to login to the workstation it actually showed the
"company1" netbios name.

I understand that both na.mes are taking me to the same domain, but hoped
it would start showing the "company2.msft" name on the new workstations
since we did change the company name.

Any help would be great.

Thanks


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Steven L Umbach
Guest
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:08 am    Post subject: Re: Upgraded from nt4 to 2003... domain name question Reply with quote
No. If you use UPN logon they enter there logon name followed by @ and your
full domain name. One you get used to it you usually like it. As soon as you
enter @ after your logon name the domain name box should disappear. ---
Steve


"James" <acidflea@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
So you are saying that the clients will only show the netbios name on the
login windows?



"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%23Z%231p448EHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
If you are at Windows 2003 forest functional level you can rename your
domain netbios name as per the link below. Otherwise as far as I know you
will have to live with it the way it is. Users can also logon via unp as
in user@mydomain.com. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx

"James" <acidflea@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23WAw9d18EHA.2124@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
We upgraded from nt4 to 2003 and changed the domain name. We used
"company1" for the domain name in nt40. We actually changed our company
name about a year ago so we used the "company1" as the 2003 netbios
domain name and used "company2.msft" as the new fully qualified internal
domain name. I can access things using the company1\username and
password or the company2.msft\username and password fine.

My question is when it comes to the logon screen on my windows xp
workstations. Like before the old workstations have the "company1"
domain name when you login which is fine. When i setup a new workstation
the other day it asked me to add the computer to the domain and i chose
to add it to "company2.msft" and everything was fine. After the xp
install i noticed when i went to login to the workstation it actually
showed the "company1" netbios name.

I understand that both na.mes are taking me to the same domain, but
hoped it would start showing the "company2.msft" name on the new
workstations since we did change the company name.

Any help would be great.

Thanks




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