Each W/S has three DNS servers. The IP address of your Domain server which has DNS server installed on it, and the two addresses supplied by your ISP. Putting your server at the top of the list means that w/s spend less time trying to resolve the address of your server.
A bit obvious but moving the i386 and any Service Pack directories helps. Also minimal swap file on C: say 32-64 Meg. Uninstall any software installed on C:. Delete Temp and empty recycle bin. Put it all on D:.
I don't know about W2k but in NT4 I found several sites that had stopped the license service.
When I enquired I was advised that the license service was just a tool to help you keep track. As long as you had the physical licenses as evidence all was OK.
BDC question
My experience is in replacing one PDC with an identically named replacement but I don't see why you shouldn't leave some functions on the BDC.
DNS question
In DHCP we added the IP address of the new PDC as a DNS server and moved it to the top of the list so that it became the...
I have just done this.
Check out Instant Doc #19877 10 Steps to for Replacing your aging PDC on WWW.WINNETMAG.COM.
Follow this and you will have a new PDC with the same users, directories, files, shares and permissions etc. as your previous PDC. By swapping the names round, no changes have to...
The problem as I see it that you are assuming that logging on to the PDC as Administrator gives you rights on the XP PC. It does not. You have no rights on the XP PC until you have sat in front of the XP PC and logged on with the Administrator account for the XP PC ( not the Administrator...
Security on XP is very tight.
It is no good logging on as a Domain Admin or even Administrator of the domain. Under NT you would be a God but this does not impress XP. Many areas will be greyed out, as if you had logged in as a humble user.
You will need to log onto the XP PC as...
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