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MIXED MODE DOMAIN

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by esomchi

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I work for a bank that still uses windows NT 4 servers due to limitations as per the banking application. The domain was recently upgraded from a native NT4 to a Win2003 domain.User authentication has become a major problem since users in the branch offices can no longer authenticate from their NT 4 serveres (Previously BDC's in the old domain structure)but now have to do that from HQ. A lot of traffic is being passed across the WAN, is there a way to make the NT4 servers still act as domain controllers??

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by faradhi

You cannot use NT 4 servers as domain controllers in Windows 2003 Native Mode.

To my knowledge there is no way to force it to work.

by bfilmfan

You cannot use the old user accounts on the old NT domains. What you can do is set the NT domains to trust the AD domain and grant the AD user accounts rights to resources in the NT domain.

Note that the AD domain SHOULD NOT trust the NT domain. This will prevent someone from using a NT domain account access to resources in the AD forest.

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