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Logging into two Domains

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by thitch

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Right now the company I work for has Windows 98 on clients, Windows NT on servers and Exchange 5.5 with two Domains
Applications Domain - CAT
Exchange Domain - Mouse
With these two domains there are two logins:
\CAT\jsmith
\Mouse\SmithJoe
It looks like in Windows 2000 pro that it will only allow one login for both domains to be used at once. Is this true?

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by curlergirl

With Win2K, the domain structure is entirely different. Are you saying that you have a Windows NT domain called Cat and a separate Windows NT domain called Mouse? If so, there must be some sort of trust relationship set up between the domains in order for your users to be able to log in to both domains. This type of "trusting" does not exist in Win2K. What you would need to do, if you really need to keep 2 separate domains in this situation, would be to create a Win2K forest that contains two domains, or a forest with one main domain and a subdomain. I have never worked in a situation with Win2K where I needed more than one domain, so I can't advise you on this except to say that it's something you should read up on and carefully consider before you convert. Regardless of the structure, I believe Win2K relies on one login per user and then you use active directory to manage user permissions and replicate between domains. Hope this helps!

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