hi all, after installation of a windows server 2003 dc on a windows 2000
domain and transfer all roles to it succesfully, when i try to list my
network neighboors changing the wins server to 2003 it return an error with
unability to see list of pc after a long wait.

How to choose in which Global Catalog users login.??
I have global catalog in an office small e the users are login in the GC the
Principal Office.
Tks

we will establish a trust between two AD's (different forests) but we do not
want the clients in domainA to have the option of selecting domainB to log on
to during the log on process.
Is there a good way to limit or restrict the list of domains the clients can

We have one AD instance where we ran into a strange problem.
We attempted doing simple binds using both ldifde and ldp.  Originally,
we used user DN for the simple bind (e.g., -a
"cn=username,cn=users,dc=domain,dc=com", and the simple bind failed with

We are running Active Directory with a Windows 2000 DC. All workstations are
running WinXP Pro and are domain members. As it is now, any domain user can
logon to any domain workstation. For the most part this isn't an issue, but
there are a few workstations (such as billing and ...

Wondering if any one can help with a problem that I am having.
We have moved a copy of our production domain in to a isolated test
environment.  This has worked great and we can reproduce the move every time.
The problem that I am having is the DC's are trying to talk to other ...

We have one site as of now, and are going to have 4, we have the subnets
setup!! in each site we will have a GC is this correct???
Also when we authenticate onto AD shouldnt it be a GC that we
authenticate to!!!

Gurus,
In this picture, what line represents the rootDSE?
http://www.hicksfx.com/ldap_naming.GIF

So im upgrading the NT PDC to 2003. Now im sitting in the stage BEFORE
installing active directory and AFTER the Windows 2003 install.
Should the NT4 BDCs still see the upgraded machine as a PDC? Cause in
the server manager everything is now a BDC.

I'm using ADMT v3 to consolidate one domain into another within the same
forest. Initially, it asked me if I wanted to test or migrate the user. Now
it goes straight to domain selection with no option to test.
It also skips over the password handling screen. Any idea's on why the ...

  If I was to solely use BIND9 for my Active Directory 2003
deployment, will I loose any functionality?
  I understand about DDNS, SRV and RR records, and thats' fine as far
as I can see, I just wondered if I'd actually loose some "proprietary -

I would like to creat two roots in the DFS, but I would like that the users
connected one root at the first server and other root at second server. Is
possible?
For exemplo:

We have 2 Windows 2003 DC's, I want to move the FSMO roles to the newer DC,  
is this easy to do and can you see any problems doing this?  I will be
performing this in non-working hours.
Thanks

We just put up a PDC with Active Directory.  The Windows Directory on the D
drive was destroyed when D was reformatted.  Now the server won't boot
because AD is corrupted.  There was no backup performed, how do I recover?  
I'm down!!!

If i wanted everyone's user account to be a part of a certain gorup, could I
use the following format when using restricted groups
Domain\%username%
Thoughts?