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by infosystems

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I have a windows nt 4.0 network. I configured a windows nt 4.0 workstation. the name of the workstation is Transportation. When I log in as administrator, or as a user, There are two options for domains. 1 is the correct domain name, the otehr isTransportation. When I select the correct domain, it does not allow me to log on. When I select Transportation as the domain, it allows me to log on and to access my domain. What do I have to do to get rid of the domain name called Transportation, and to be able to log on with my correct domain name? If i delete the transportation domain name will i lock myself out of my workstation completely?

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by infosystems

When I try to log in under the correct domain name, it gives an error that there is no trust relationship.

by ken wolf

Have you tried joining this workstation to your domain? Right click on Network Neighborhood icon select properties, should open at the Identification page, click on the Change button. You also might try adding the workstation to the domain at your PDC in the Server Manager applet. You also might want to consider renaming the workstation with a name that is different from the domain name.

by curlergirl

First of all, it is normal to see two "domain" names when you log onto an NT workstation that is a member of a domain. One is the actual domain name, the other is the name of the workstation itself. This allows you to log on locally to the workstation without authenticating to the domain, should you choose to do so. So what you are seeing is normal - when you log onto the Transportation "domain", what you're actually doing is logging on to the local workstation. Now, the fact that you are getting a message that there is no trust relationship indicates that there is something wrong with your machine's domain account. This is probably caused by the fact that your machine name is more than 12 characters long. NT does not allow machine names that are more than 12 characters. My advice is to do the following:

1. Go to your PDC and make sure that there is no machine account showing in Server Manager for the Transportation workstation. If there is, delete it.
2. Go back to the workstation, go to the Network Properties, and change the machine membership to a workgroup instead of the domain. This will effectively remove the machine from the domain.
3. Change the machine name to something with 12 characters or less.
4. Re-join the domain with the new workstation name, and choose to create a machine account at that time. This will create a new, valid machine account on the domain for that workstation.

Hope this helps!

by gigelul

Answer no. 2 is correct. But the suggestion that the name of the workstation must be less than 12 characters are false. The limit is 15 characters.

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