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Hi Jorge, Thanks to all for the replies. The netbios name was there before my
time. The reason they don't match is there have been a lot of acquisitions
and there is now a parent company that is the 2k domain name. They basically
want to change the netbios name from a previous company name to the parent
company name... Thanks!
"Jorge_de_Almeida_Pinto" wrote:
> "" wrote:
> > Hi- These are not 2 different domains, 'apples' is just the
> > pre-2k (NT)
> > domain name for joesfruitemporium.com. We had a NT domain and
> > upgraded it to
> > 2K. Now we want to change the old NT domain name of 'apples'
> > to 'oranges'.
> > Does that make a difference or would we still need to do a
> > paralell
> > migration? Thanks!
> >
> > "Santhosh Sivarajan" wrote:
> >
> > > It is not that easy to change the domain name in NT4.0. You
> > can perform a
> > > parallel migration and migrate all the users and resources
> > from the NT
> > > Domain to W2K or W2K3 domain.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > --
> > > Santhosh Sivarajan
> > > MCSE(W2K3/W2K/NT4),MCSA(W2K3/W2K/MSG),CCNA,Network+
> > > Houston, TX
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Glen" <Glen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3CA596F3-7DD9-400C-9090-7B8265F1549B@microsoft.com...
> > > > Hi - We've aquired another company and I've been asked if
> > the following is
> > > > possible/feasible. Our current 2k AD domain name is very
> > long with an
> > > > example
> > > > of joesfruitemporium.com with the old NT domain as 'apples'. When most
> > > > people
> > > > login they use the old NTdomain of applesusername to
> > authenticate.
> > > > Management wants to change 'apples' to 'oranges' so people
> > will
> > > > authenticate
> > > > as orangesusername. The 2k Active Directory domain name
> > of
> > > > joesfruitemporium.com part is fine and doesn't need to be changed, just
> > > > the
> > > > old NT domain from 'apples' to 'oranges'. Thanks in
> > advance. -Glen
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> So you have a W2K AD domain/forest with:
> DNS name: someverylongdomainname.com
> Netbios name (pre-w2k): short
>
> you want to change the netbios name..
>
> solution: as it is... not possible!
>
> as said before to rename a domain you must have w2k3 ad with forest
> functional level of w2k3 AND even then you should think twice before
> doing it. It impacts your whole AD forest!
>
> I wonder why your netbios name differs from the dns name?
>
> Cheers,
>
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