We had
the same situation - we elected to just have the dns name and the NetBIOS name
of the domain be different (i.e., NetBIOS name was xxx_yyy, DNS name of the
domain is zzz.company.com). Have had no problems with having the two
different names for the same domain, and we've been in production since December
of 2000. I know there's been discussion on this list about this topic
before - I have not yet heard of a scenario where this causes problems, but I
suppose one exists someplace :( If so, I'd love to hear about
it.
Users
will see the 'old' name in the drop-down box when they log in to the domain, and
can continue to use it wherever they need to specify the domain (like
xxx_yyy\username in the NET USE command, etc.). When you use AD tools like
ADU&C, you'll deal with the 'new' DNS name.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] NETBIOS names with underscoresHi guys,I need to upgrade our domain from NT4.0. Or domain is called RES_DOM1. Will the underscore be compatible with ADS, i.e will NetBios be okay. I'm going to have the DNS names space to something like res.local. What do you think?Thanks in advanceLou
