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by ratherbfishing 1 view

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We have a WIN2000 server setup as Domain Controller running DNS and WINS. DNS is standard primary. AD is in mixed mode. The server has registered itself with both DNS and WINS. I can join a WIN2000 machine to the domain. I cannot join a NT 4.0 client to the domain. It reports it cannot locate the Domain Controller. The NT client has the correct WINS and DNS address for the DC. IT can ping and resolve the name of the DC. What am I missing here?

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by joseph moore

Just make sure your Win2K DC has the Operations Role of PDC Emulator. Open AD Users & Computers. Right-click on your domain -> Operation Master. Click the PDC tab, and make sure the FQDN for your AD DC is listed.
If so, then you can modify the LMHOSTS file on the client NT box to resolve the IP address, machine name and NetBIOS-version of your domain name.
Please read Technet article Q180094 for details why and what the 2 records that will go in the LMHOSTS file should look like:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q180094
(please remove any spaces)

hope this helps

by ratherbfishing

Joseph, this was one of those stupid me mistakes. I forgot to use the netbios domain name on the client. Worked fine after that. I am going to give you the points anyway since you gave such a fine answer.

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