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Renaming the NT 40 domain

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by hughmiller

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my NT 4 domain name abc_800_lan and would like to upgrade from NT 4 to windows 2000 but after research the current domain naming convention doesn't fit windows 2000 naming convention, does anyone have this experience in the pass, please advice what is the bestway to do this.

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Hugh

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by ann777

You know what the best way is... remove the underscores. And update DNS. If you are an Intranet, it's easy. If you use the Internet, then you may need to have your ISP update their DNS Hosts so that name resolution does not get interrupted.

by acattr

you can upgrade the network to 2000. the abc_800_lan is the netbios name. when you upgrade to windows 2000 it will ask you to specify a new abc800lan.com domain name. they will be two different things. abc_800_lan is used by legacy machines whenjoinging the domain. abc800lan.com will be used by 2000 and up when joining the domain.

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