Dual booting

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Good Day,

I have a system that dual boots between windows 2000 and Xp on two different
partitions. I have both OS's joined to a domain, here is the problem:
whenever I boot into windows 2000 it gives me an error that it is unable to
find a domain server, to resolve this I log in locally and remove and re-join
domain. then I'm able to log in to the domain. Whenever I boot into xp I get
the same error and I have to perform the same tasks to resolve by removing
and re-joing to the domain.

I'm using two different computer names.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Ray
 
Ray said:
Good Day,

I have a system that dual boots between windows 2000 and Xp on two different
partitions. I have both OS's joined to a domain, here is the problem:
whenever I boot into windows 2000 it gives me an error that it is unable to
find a domain server, to resolve this I log in locally and remove and re-join
domain. then I'm able to log in to the domain. Whenever I boot into xp I get
the same error and I have to perform the same tasks to resolve by removing
and re-joing to the domain.

I'm using two different computer names.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Ray
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Very strange . . . This type of problem is always avoided by
using a proper boot manager, one that provides complete
separation between OSs. XOSL is one of them, and it's free.

About your current problem: Perhaps the disk identifiers
are changing between reboots. Have a look at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices,
and record the binary data shown against DosDevices\C:
and DosDevices\D:. Does it change?
 
I suspect that as long as both have the same network card (and thus the same
MAC address) they will pick up the same address from DHCP and you're going
to continue to have problems.

I would put a second NIC in the computer, use NIC #1 in Windows 2000 and
disable NIC #2, then in Windows XP enable NIC #2 and disable NIC #1. That
should get each PC a different IP address, therefore different DNS entries,
and should resolve your problems.

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