SRV records for AD

[Pete]

I found an issue this morning with one server trying to
print to another servers shared printer. After looking
into this the server sending the report cannot even go
into Network Neighborhood and browse the files of the
other server. I get an error message that the target
account name is incorrect. If I jump over to the other
server it can browse the first server no problem. Working
from this server I seem fine. I did notice that my SRV
records for AD are missing and cannot get them to reload.
Does any have an idea what to do?

FYI I stumbled onto a document in the knowledge base that
said sp4 does not like single domain names which is what I
am using. If this is the problem is there a simple way to
correct?

 

[Mohanchand Koduri [MSFT]]

Hello Pete,

As you have indicated if you are using a single label domain in your
environment
then the following article should help you to get around the problem:

300684 Information About Configuring Windows 2000 for Domains With
Single-Label
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300684



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[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In Pete <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: I found an issue this morning with one server trying to
: print to another servers shared printer. After looking
: into this the server sending the report cannot even go
: into Network Neighborhood and browse the files of the
: other server. I get an error message that the target
: account name is incorrect. If I jump over to the other
: server it can browse the first server no problem. Working
: from this server I seem fine. I did notice that my SRV
: records for AD are missing and cannot get them to reload.
: Does any have an idea what to do?
:
: FYI I stumbled onto a document in the knowledge base that
: said sp4 does not like single domain names which is what I
: am using. If this is the problem is there a simple way to
: correct?

If you have a single label DNS domain name for a Win2k domain you will have
many problems, some can be fixed by adding the registry hacks from KB 300684
others cannot be fixed one of which is domain Group Policies (GPOs) I cannot
verify this but if you add an alias to your forward lookup zone that has
your domain name as its name and point it to your domain name with a
trailing . added to it. (if your domain name is domain, in the alias name
field put 'domain' in the FQDN field put 'domain.' (without the quotes)
300684 - Information About Configuring Windows 2000 for Domains with
Single-Label DNS Names
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300684&FR=1