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by mfarr

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I have a win 2000 server with active dir. running in a domain, if I freshly install win 2000 pro on a system and it gets to the area that requires the domain info, i include this info in and click next, the system can't find the domain. If I format and reinstall win nt for workstation run thru the same set up include the domain info, it finds the domain with not a problem. Then I upgrade to win 2000 pro and I have no problems. What is causing this to happen.

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by timwalsh

May have an answer for you. I think it's probably an issue of the AD domain name (abc.def.com) vs. the pre-windows 2000 domain name (abc). Have not found a good answer as to why it behaves this way, but have found that when installing a Win2K Pro machine in an AD domain, it works better (in fact, may only work) when you enter the entire AD domain name. What happened when you reinstalled NT and then upgraded, is you provided the pre-Win2k doamin name and during the upgrade, it was automatically translated to the AD domain name. To verify the differences between the 2 domain name formats, go to AD Domains and Trusts and click on the Properties for your Domain. You will see the entry for the pre-Win2K domain name.
Hope this helps!

by saihib

Microsoft considers this to be a common installation problem. Their suggestion is to install to a workgroup and once the installation is complete, then join the machine to the domain. Another possibility is that the machine already has a computer account and Win2K is now using different SIDs. If that's the case then the computer account needs to be deleted and re-created.

by karim

You have to but a DNS ip address for both win2000server and win2000pro it should be the same
and dont forget to build a dns configuration during Active Directory setup.
this action I was faced it.

by metallica

I believe during setup you just choose custom settings for network and point it to your dns server

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