[THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen
- From: "Luchette, Jon" <JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:00:57 -0500
No, it'll tell you that you have existing Domain Controllers that need to be
either upgraded or removed, and until you do, you cannot upgrade to Domain
Funtional Level.
-----Original Message-----
From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:43 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen
Is that even possible (at least by the GUI...), anyways?
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Oglesby
> Sent: 16 December 2004 15:29
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen
>
> Uh: this confuses me "We just recently upgraded our domain
> to AD 2k3 native mode with only 2 DCs from AD 2000 in mixed
> mode with 3 NT 4 BDCs and 2 AD 2000 DCs"
>
> Does this mean you changed the mode to native 2003 AND you
> still have NT 4 BDCs and 2000 DCs running?
>
> Not good.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luchette, Jon [mailto:JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:14 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] OT: weirdest thing I've ever seen
>
> Here is a good one. We just recently upgraded our domain to
> AD 2k3 native mode with only 2 DCs from AD 2000 in mixed mode
> with 3 NT 4 BDCs and 2 AD 2000 DCs. We have about 1200
> client machines running mostly XP and 2k some 9.x machines
> but not many, Dell and HP mostly. I don't know if it is
> related to the domain upgrade but since then we have had 3
> Dell Laptops running win 2k have this very strange problem.
> One at a time we'll get calls where they say that their
> network drives aren't mapping during logon, and when we go to
> look at their machine we try to logon and we get "The domain
> is not available." It seems that in the network
> configuration it'll have the Netbios name of the domain
> listed on these machines so what we do to fix it is, remove
> the machine from the domain, and then readd it using the FQDN
> of the domain. This seems to allow us to atleast logon to
> the domain successfully. Anyone ever seen anything like this
> happen before, or have any ideas if this might be related to
> the domain upgrade we just did? Maybe it is due to the fact
> that we used to have 5 DCs and now we only have 2? But 2
> should be good for 1200 clients don't you think?
>
> Thanks!
>
> /jL
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