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Adding W2000 Client PC to NT Server

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by chas.large.dg

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We have a Windows NT4 server and have just upgraded some Win 95 Client Machines to W2000 PC's. When I try to Log in on the NT4 Domain using the W2000 Client, an error message saying cannot find roaming profile etc. I accept this and get the basic Welcome to Windows 2000 screen. The only way to get the PC to see the network is to log on to the W2K COMPUTER DOMAIN and then browse the network but this does not allow for use of the log-on script the W95/98 clients use to map drives and get start upmessages.

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by joseph moore

Ok, so the problem is that from these newly upgraded Win2K machines, they cannot properly log into your NT domain? Your NT4 Server is a Primary Domain Controller, right?
If so, then try this fix on all of the Win2K machines: modify the LMHOSTS file on them with 2 records, pointing the IP address of your PDC to its machine name.
Please read Technet article Q180094 on the LMHOSTS syntax and how to configure it for domain authentication:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q180094
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by curlergirl

Have you created a machine account for each of these Win2K machines on the domain? Have you joined the domain? Both of these need to be done for a Win2K machine to properly authenticate with the domain security. TCP/IP is obviously working, sinceyou can browse when you log on locally, so it sounds like a machine or user authentication problem. Also, have you added the domain user accounts to the local Users or Power Users group? If you have added local users, but have not given any domainuser accounts permissions to the machine, this could also cause logon authentication problems when trying to log on to the domain. NOTE: Local and domain user accounts are authenticated differently EVEN IF the user names and passwords are the same.Hope this helps!

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