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Connecting NT Servers to Win2000 Server

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by imthiyaz

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Recently we installed a Win2000 Server and after configuring networking we noticed that the Stand Alone NT 4.0 Server and a NT4 Domain Server in LAN is not connecting thru Win2000 Server. Further it is the same case with an NT4.0 Domain Server whichwe are connecting thru WAN.
How can I connect these Servers ? Appreciate if necessary steps provided as I am new to Win2000 Server Administration.

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by r. a. caluste

You might be running in native mode (no pre-windows 2000 server running in the domain) when you should be instead running in mixed-mode. There is a way to convert from mixed-mode to native mode but no way from native mode back to mixed mode.

by erikdr

Has nothing to do with domain trusts, answer 1 is wrong indeed. Probably has to do much with the same reason why W9x clients have trouble with peer-to-peer connections with W2K: WINS.
The NT machines expect the W2K machines to be searchable throughWINS but they aren't, W2K uses (D)DNS for the name-to-IP mapping.
Steps to take:
1) See whether you _can_ connect using the IP address of the servers only (NET VIEW \\p.q.r.s or NET USE with same).
2) If so, then we have the right direction. Either configure the NT machines so that they use a DNS server (or lmhosts file) for the name resolution, or try to add WINS to the W2K server for downward compatibility.

Hope this helps,

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