Hi guys, I have convinced a small business to upgrade their entire network. windows workstations and linux server.
In order to make it easier for them, I suggested we do it in stages, workstations first then server. Anyway, the current network is an NT server with the standard 5 user licenses, and 5 win95 and 98 clients. The NT server has absolutly no service packs loaded, and its just used as a file server. Anway, today I upgraded one of the win98 clients (wasn't 98SE) to XP SP1 after upgrading the ram in the system to 256MB and the install want flawlessly. However I can't get it to connect to the domain on the NT server. I thought this might be a case of windows XP using encrypted passwords and such but a look in the MS helpfile on XP says that the default is to not do that.. is that true?? IS this likely to be the problem I am having??? I used exactly the same settings in XP that the machine had in win98. IP: 192.168.0.13 GATEWAY: 192.168.0.1 WINS: 192.168.0.1 (which is the IP of the NT server.) NAME: OLDKEN DOMAIN: HAMMON And tried to log on as the same user with the same password. After about 2 minutes, I get a message along the lines of the computer not being allowed access. or access denied. Should I need to setup a computer account on the server even though its the same machine with all the same details only XP instead of 98? If I was using a different computer account, I would (on the NT4 Server) go into Server Manager, and on the Computer menu, click "Add to Domain". Then type in the name of the new windows box, as an "NT Workstation or Member Server", but the computer is using the same name.. so I should not have to do that. If the problem is the encryption, should I disable encryption in XP or would I be better off trying to find the 6 service packs for NT4 ??? (any ideas where I could get them in a hurry?) Any advice here would be much appreciated, I can hardly remember NT4 its been so long, and most of my experiance with NT 4 server was when used with SBS. (and I never had to worry about XP back then.) I can't wait to fdisk NT and load linux on, but its a working network and I am not permitted to take it down and do the lot in one hit so I have to get XP working with the existing server first and finish upgrading the workstations. regards Franki
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