Domain Name login

[Stevieh]

We have a Windows 2000 Server that is also our Primary Domain controller, the name of our domain is flowline.local

The Server is also our DHCP and DNS Server.

If I look at the leases on the DHCP Server I notice that some users are logged in on the Flowline.local domain, but others are logged in on the Flow-Line.net domain, which is another domain used in the DNS Server.

I would realy appreciate it if someone could explain to me how it is possible for some users to be logged in on the Flow-Line.net domain as this is not the name of the Primary Domain.

Steveh24

 

[Jpoandl]

Users are logging into the domain using netbios domain name...not the fully qualified domain name. Flowline is very similar to flow-line, so, I guess some users are picking the wrong netbios name when they login.

Apparently, they must have users accounts in both domains...

Sounds like more of a questionable initial setup design, then an actual problem on your network.

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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[Stevieh]

Thanks Jpoandl

Something I didn't explain was that when the PDC was configured we didn't specifically need to use a valid domain name so as Microsoft suggested, you can use any name followed by .local, hence Flowline.local

At this point if I looked at the DHCP Leases all users were logged into the Flowline.local domain, which is as I would have expected.

However, in the following weeks we did register a domain called Flow-Line.net and made a few entries into the DNS Server, this was done so that our SIP PBX could function correctly and this is when I noticed some users were logged in on the Flow-Line.net domain, but couldn't understand why.

I'm also not sure of the implications for those users who are not logged into the Flowline.local domain

Steve

 

[h5n1]

is there any AD or trust between these 2 domains?

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