How to change small network domain name with minimimal client impact?

[jtpr]

I think I have things all botched up. I currently have a small
network
at home with ~5 clients and 2 domains, each with just one PDC, no
BDC's. I did this to learn and experiment.


Anyway, the main problem I have is I cannot see anything in the domain
from a security standpoint, just users local to any given client.
Secondly, I always get netlogon errors on the event log:


Event ID: 5719
No Domain Controller is available for domain MY_DOMAIN due to the
following:
There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon
request. .
Make sure that the computer is connected to the network and try again.
If the problem persists, please contact your domain administrator.


So, what I thought would be best is to get rid of the second domain
(OTHER), and then use the PDC for that domain as a BDC for MY_DOMAIN.
Also, I want to change the name from MY_DOMAIN to HOUSE, as I have
heard that having underscores in domain names can be a bad thing.


So, all this being said, what would be the best way to attack this?
Everybody that logs in, logs into the domain MY_DOMAIN at this point.
Will they lose all their local settings when I am done renaming the
domain? Will I have to recreate all the users? What impact will it
have on them?


-Jim

 

[Paul Bergson]

Start here

Try running netdiag, repadmin and dcdiag. Look for fail, error and warning
errors.

If you don't have the tools installed load them from your install disk.

d:\i386\adminpak.msi (Server tools for remote management of servers)
d:\support\tools\setup.exe (Server Utilities)

Copy the following to a cmd file and run look for error, fail and warn
within the reports. Post any errors you can't figure out. make sure you
modify DC_Name to the name of a dc in your domain.

@echo off

c:
cd \
cd "program files\support tools"

del c:\dcdiag.log
dcdiag /e /c /v /sC_Name /f:c:\dcdiag.log
start c:\dcdiag.log

netdiag.exe /v > c:\netdiag.log
start c:\netdiag.log

repadmin.exe /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite > c:\repl.txt
start c:\repl.txt


See for more details

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...Ref/1d4ce93c-54f2-4069-a708-251509c38837.mspx

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Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CNE, CNA, CCA

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