DNS Setup

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Hi, When I installed Win2K, and installed Active Directory, the domain name
I gave was only 3 letters. ABC. I did not use ABC.XYZ.com. What problems is
this going to cause me? I am having some problems with my XP clients now
that they cannot view shares. When I choose a share it will ask me for a
Username and Password, and when I put the users password it asks me for a
different one, so I put my username and password and it works, I am in the
Domain Admins Group.

Will this be because of the problem mentioned before, or is it something
else.

Thanks
 
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Cbayardo said:
Hi, When I installed Win2K, and installed Active Directory, the
domain name I gave was only 3 letters. ABC. I did not use
ABC.XYZ.com. What problems is this going to cause me? I am having
some problems with my XP clients now that they cannot view shares.
When I choose a share it will ask me for a Username and Password, and
when I put the users password it asks me for a different one, so I
put my username and password and it works, I am in the Domain Admins
Group.

Will this be because of the problem mentioned before, or is it
something else.

Thanks
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It is going to be more trouble than it is worth, just check through this
group to find how many problems are caused by single label domain names.
There are more than I want to mention, due to the fact my brain is getting
vapor locked.
 
I kind of doubt that your problem is directly associated with the issue of
having a single labeled domain name. See:

300684 - Information about configuring Windows for domains with single-label
DNS names (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300684).

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What's going on homes.. Here's the deal you need to script
out net share ipc$ from command prompt everytime you
restart your dc for your xp machines to have network
access.. Why is this? I do not know.. If someone does
please provide the answer..

But in the mean time it works like a charm..
 
You should not have to manually reshare IPC$ every time the domain
controller restarts. If you do then you've got another issue. When I've
seen this before it's always virus related somehow.

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J.C. Hornbeck said:
You should not have to manually reshare IPC$ every time the domain
controller restarts. If you do then you've got another issue. When
I've seen this before it's always virus related somehow.
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JC, I agree, it is related to a virus, trojan or hack that the machine could
have been possibly hijacked into an FTP server. I would look at this key for
the existing shares:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\Shares]

The ipc$ share should exist in there.


If not, then some sort of batch file probably removed it. I would also look
in this key to see what is exactly starting up with the machine at boot time
and see if anything does not belong. I would suggest to google each item to
understand what they are before deleting them. I would also back you your
reg or that specific key prior to deleting anything. Look for anything that
looks like a .bat or .cmd file that is being invoked, then find it, then
edit it to see what it's doing:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]



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Ace

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Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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