DNS problem

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In Nox <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: Here is a picture, when using acronyms please give name I don't know
: what have of them stand for.

The only of these zones you should be interested in is the
1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. zone and I see the PTR for the server is missing.
The rest of these zones cannot be edited and are hidden on normal view of
DNS.
On the 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. zone right click on it for properties, on the
General tab "Allow dynamic updates" either "Yes" or "Only secure updates",
IIRC Default on reverse lookup zone is "No" since reverse lookup zone can be
a security issue. Theoretically someone could get into DNS, then get the
host name and IP of every machine on your network. Forward zones are
different issue because in order to get a machine IP they would have to do a
zone transfer, or make wild guesses as to the host names of your machines to
get the IP address.
In a command prompt run ipconfig /registerdns then refresh the zone, then
the 107 PTR record should show up if dynamic updates are not disabled on the
NIC. If you want you can manually create the record and give it any name you
want (really you can) this zone is not relevant to whether AD works or not,
but it will make nslookup happy.

 

[Nox]

Additional information, if I add no to the string to put in the browser I do
get some information. Two folders with numbers 6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F AND
31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F in these two folders are a Machine folder and user
folder and GPT.INI . I also noticed when expanding the network tree I have
another work group name which is Main, should that be there? It shows the
same computers and shares as no-x-qus. Another question before I go do you
think upgrading to w2k3 would have any benefits for me a home user?

Here is a picture, when using acronyms please give name I don't know what
have of them stand for.
"Ace Fekay [MVP]"

 

[Nox]

Ok the computer will now join the domain, problem it says the domain name is
main not no-x-qus, next when I join everything on desktop is gone no email
account and the programs I have running on the desktop are not there, dam
this is complicated.

Additional information, if I add no to the string to put in the browser I do
get some information. Two folders with numbers 6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F AND
31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F in these two folders are a Machine folder and user
folder and GPT.INI . I also noticed when expanding the network tree I have
another work group name which is Main, should that be there? It shows the
same computers and shares as no-x-qus. Another question before I go do you
think upgrading to w2k3 would have any benefits for me a home user?

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In Nox <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: Ok the computer will now join the domain, problem it says the domain
: name is main not no-x-qus, next when I join everything on desktop is
: gone no email account and the programs I have running on the desktop
: are not there, dam this is complicated.

Here is what you do to get your local profile back you had on the local
machine.
Add your domain Account as an Administrator for the local machine.
Right click on My Computer, Properties, User Profiles tab, select the local
Profile you want to make your domain profile. Then click Copy to, set the
allowed to use to the domain account you want the profile to be used by
browse to the C:\Documents and Settings\domainuser folder and click Ok.
You cannot be logged on as the source or destination profile or user but you
must be logged on as a machine administrators group in a domain
administrator.
If this fails you will have to take ownership of the user profile in order
to do that you have to show hidden files and reset ownership on all child
objects. I had to do just that today for a client.

 

[Nox]

There is no such folder on this computer which is an XPp machine. Also my
domain name on the net is no-x-qus.com, when I migrate my web to this server
will it work being the domain name is main??? I now know how to join the XPp
machine and know that XPh can not join a domain but can a script be created
to have them logon when they are booted so when printing is necessary a user
name and password doesn't have to be put in to gain access?? They, XPh
machines have been put in the active directory and the users of them.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In Nox <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: There is no such folder on this computer which is an XPp machine.

No such which folder?
This: C:\Documents and Settings?
This folder is created by setup and all user profiles are in it. Here is a
link to Win2k version instructions XP PRo uses the same basic instructions.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255095&Product=win2000

: Also my domain name on the net is no-x-qus.com, when I migrate my web
: to this server will it work being the domain name is main???
Yes, Website domains don't care what the machines or AD domain is. The
website will work but just remember one thing, if any user has to
authenticate to a web site, the user authenticates to a user in the AD
domain, or to a user in an SQL database. This is really a question you need
to submit to the IIS group though.

: I now
: know how to join the XPp machine and know that XPh can not join a
: domain but can a script be created to have them logon when they are
: booted so when printing is necessary a user name and password doesn't
: have to be put in to gain access?? They, XPh machines have been put
: in the active directory and the users of them.
:
Again I'm not sure how you could give printer access from an AD Domain to an
XP Home machine since it cannot authenticate to a domain. You may be able to
do this in IIS by using internet printing feature. You could also post this
in the IIS group.

 

[Nox]

Well I have tried all the suggestions to get all my
setting to the main account. I lost everything
fortunately I copied the entire folder to another drive
and copied and pasted must all the information into the
Main account. I haven't been able to get this
conversation back into outlook but with this new message
maybe it will reapear. Getting back to the XPh machines
they logon to the server to share folders and use the
printer that has been set on their machines to print to
the server printer. But every time they hit print a user
name and PW window comes up for them to logon to the
server. They only have to do it once when the computer is
first turned on the the command is made to print or to
access their files on the server. This is why I asked if
a script could be made so when the computer is booted
that it would logon and present user name and password so
they wouldn't have to do it.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In Nox <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: Well I have tried all the suggestions to get all my
: setting to the main account. I lost everything
: fortunately I copied the entire folder to another drive
: and copied and pasted must all the information into the
: Main account. I haven't been able to get this
: conversation back into outlook but with this new message
: maybe it will reapear. Getting back to the XPh machines
: they logon to the server to share folders and use the
: printer that has been set on their machines to print to
: the server printer. But every time they hit print a user
: name and PW window comes up for them to logon to the
: server. They only have to do it once when the computer is
: first turned on the the command is made to print or to
: access their files on the server. This is why I asked if
: a script could be made so when the computer is booted
: that it would logon and present user name and password so
: they wouldn't have to do it.

Use the net use command to connect as another user. type net use /h to get
the syntax