Win2000 clients cant find Domain Controller

[ziggy]

Hi, Ive just set up a fresh Win2000 Advanced Server in a
new forest and domain. When Win2000 clients start up and
the login dialog is displayed, the new AD domain is not
displayed, only the old NT and localhost so they cant
login to the new domain.

The new Win2000 server has AD, DNS and DHCP set up and
looks like these services are running ok. Clients are
being allocated IPs and can ping the server IP and domain
name (server.domain.tree) ok.

An old NT domain is also running on the same segment but
DHCP, DNS and Wins are disabled. The NT4 PDC was
unsuccessfully upgraded to Win2000. DNS is not configured
correctly so I want to decomission it. Users can still log
into the upgraded NT domain and can browse the new domain
and log into the Win2000 PDC through file explorer.

Even tried shutting down the PDC from the old domain and
re-installing MS network client and TCP/IP on clients.

 

[Marina Roos]

You'll have to join the clients to the new domain.

Marina

 

[Clark Satter [MSFT]]

As far as having the new domain in the list of domains to log into the client systems will need to join the domain. Since DHCP works on broadcast the clients
will still get IP addresses.

Regards,
Clark Satter
MCSA MCSE A+
Microsoft Networking Support

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[Ziggy]

Thanks for that. To take clients out of the old domain I
had to join them to a workgroup, reboot, then add them to
the new domain. Worked a treat.
Cheers

 

[Marina Roos]

Great! Thanks for reporting back.

Marina

Thanks for that. To take clients out of the old domain I
had to join them to a workgroup, reboot, then add them to
the new domain. Worked a treat.
Cheers