I have a Win2000 parent/child domain, in mixed mode. I want to go to
Native mode, prior to upgrading to Win2003. I have no NT servers, so
no worries there. I have some Mac clients, but they're not domain
members, so no worries there. My concern - going from Mixed Mode to
Native mode removes the domain NetBIOS name, right? If I have a
service that uses the NetBios form of a login ID (i.e.,
dept.gov\user), will that service stop working? Or does the machine
that the service runs on store the credentials as "whatever the domain
name is"\user? Or does it hardcode the NetBIOS name in the registry?
Basically - will those services stop working if I go to Native Mode,
because their credentials are no long valid? Will they all have to be
re-entered as "u...@.."?
Related question: in our root DNS, we have 2 zones - one is the the
root domain name - ads.ourname.dept.gov; the other zone is
"ourname.dept.gov", which is the NetBIOS name of the child domain. My
developers have this habit of specifying hosts as
"hostname.ourname.dept.gov" (i.e., they use the NetBIOS name), in
stead of the proper name of the child domain
"hostname.wrk.ads.ourname.gov". So this second zone are all just A
records that point to hosts that are in my child domain. And I'm
pretty sure we're only doing that for historic compatibility with
ancient times. I'd love to be able to dump that whole zone, and just
do a clean and simple zone with the name of the domain
("ads.ourname.dept.gov"). I'm just not completely sure what will
break, if I go to Native Mode.
Thoughts?
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