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Extraneous DNS lookups: WORKGROUP.domain
Daniel Pum bo...@mtu.edu comp os ms-windows nt admin misc mal...@ludens.elte.hu wrote: We have a LAN with 8 machines running NT Workstation 3.51, the users work in a workgroup. We want to set up an NT Server to act as a domain controller, and convert the workgroup to a domain. Is there any way to preserve

cannot connect by using remote desktop
2) the Win95 system has placed itself into a workgroup other than the ==>> domain defined on the NT server. In that case, the dialin client has no ==>> domain server for the I mean, it's really mandatory to activate the DNS server process ==>on the NT server in order to manage the Microsoft Workgroup domain?

bogus workgroup or domain
But, Win95 is asking the DNS for "workgroup.domain.net" and then the phonline to my ISP goes up - i don't like that. I have read some about the hosts and lmhosts files in windows, but I can't get it to stop asking for workgroup.domain.net. Don't tell me to install a DNS in Linux - yes, I could do that,

Best way to configure for two networks
Retrying startup domain sid fetch for WORKGROUP resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name WORKGROUP<0x1b> getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name WORKGROUP<0x1b> wins_srv_count: WINS status: 0 servers. resolve_wins: WINS server resolution selected and

Get Domain/Workgroup name of PC Registration
My structure looks like this now: -\\Domain\Root (target at \\Building1Server\RootNothing$) Home --> Pointing to \\Building1Server\Home (This doesn't seem to make sense) Workgroup I right click "Home", and I can just enter "replica" info. I don't see an option on "Home" to let me enter another level,

HELP! I changed from domain to a workgroup with same username ...
You will need to change the Domain /Workgroup Name on the Win2k client... The suggestion is you change the computer name to something like computer1 and workgroup/domain name to workgroup, reboot, then change it to match the SBS designated computer name and domain name "Jerry" <jer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

Upgrading from workgroup to domain: experiences & gotchas ...
John Thomas twelvepac...@hotmail.com microsoft public win2000 active_directory Does anyone know if you can rename the windows workgroup domain in active directory from the default "workgroup" to something else? If so, what would be the steps to do so? I understand you can move root services to another domain

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I have tried going to the network control panel and changing it from workgroup to domain and get the error message "Domain controller for this domain cannot be located" Ditto... if you get any info, let me know, too, okay? Thanks! Kim Matlon k...@getnet.com Kim is not telling us if he has NT Workstation or server,

VPN access from a workgroup help.
Hans Nieser ap...@xs4alles.nl microsoft public dotnet languages csharp I'm writing a little utility in which I need to get a list of the computers (string[] or whatever) in the currently joined workgroup/domain and the name of the workgroup/domain itself. Now I know this should be somewhere on MSDN, but even with a

Rename the windows workgroup domain in Active Directory
Cris Hanna, BS, MCP, MVP crisha...@aol.com microsoft public backoffice smallbiz Patrick, Going to guess this is an NT Workstation but either way should work Remove all clients adapters protocols etc from Network applet, before rebooting change computer name and workgroup/domain to something out of the blue ie

Can ONE samba server delegate shared files per workgroup/domain?
Bye the way, My work has me configured as part of a domain on the 2000 machine. I was able to change to the MSHOME workgroup and share with the XP machine, Any easy way to bounce back and forth between a workgroup and a domain? There's nothing built in to Windows for easy workgroup/domain switching.

ATTBI.COM domain/workgroup issues
Remember that you need to specify the workgroup/domain name that the 'Doze machine belongs to. Like so: mount -t smbfs //BORG/SHARE /mnt/borg -o username=USER,workgroup= WORKGROUP ...and things should work, assuming you've got a server named BORG belonging to domain WORKGROUP sharing something called SHARE.

Joining both a workgroup and domain
workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name # the workgroup name must not be the same as a host name # on the PC, the workgroup name is set independently from the domain name. there is only one domain master browser per workgroup domain master = yes # try to become the local master browser on this subnet.

Win2k in domain, Win98 in workgroup
I'ma bit confused but is workgroup in WinXp the same as domain name and computer name (wxp) the same as localhost? Also, if I were to use the printer on WXP On the DNS tab, if your workgroup/domain name is 'workgroup', change the Hostname to yourchosencomputername.workgroup. Go to the Hosts tab and add a new

Directory listing in libsmbclient.so
Why don't you just simply create a domain with the same name as your workgroup? BTW you don't JOIN a workgroup NOR do you HAVE to join the "workgroup" I have "guest" computers on my network all the time with different workgroup/domain names and have no problem allowing those workgroup/domain computers access to

WorkGroup and Domain in network neighbourhood ?
... wrote: What do I have to do to stop Win95 from doing extraneous DNS lookups of WORKGROUP.domain (eg in my case: WORKGROUP.connectnet.com) every few minutes? WORKGROUP is probably always at the same offset, or find some sort of type code (if there is one in SMB). I can probably filter it on my Pipeline 50,

How do i set a domain/workgroup comment?
Bill Sanderson bill_NoSpamSander...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp work_remotely As Jeffrey mentioned--you can't join the domain with XP Home. You might try changing the workgroup name to match the domain name, though. I'm not quite sure whether that should be NET or NET.COM in your case--pretty easy experiment

Win95 -> WinNT WKS Peer networking
the fly tse...@planetkc.com comp os ms-windows nt misc Control Panel | Network Cornelia Sieber wrote: Hi, Does anyone know, where the information of the workgroup/domain of the computer is stored on an WinNT4? Thanks Conny Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

OS X share w/ W2K from an NT domain (long)?
Or the setting to set the computer into a workgroup/domain? -- David Lozzi Associated Business & Technology Group dlo...@associatedbtg.com I should've known that, but I had a brain fart... "keith" <kad...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:059901c2a20e$c6fff420$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04... Stop users from getting to

Can't Set Workgroup Name
Try using "logon using dialup connection" to get the clients logged on to the domain, or put then in a workgroup with the same name as the RRAS server's workgroup/domain . Also check that they receive the correct WINS address when they connect. They should be able to ping LAN machines by name.