When our site was setup, the IT Engineer at the time decided to name the
internal Domain the same as our external domain name. I know that this is a
stupid thing to do, but he did it.
The problem that i have is the fact that if someone internally tries to go

I'm getting the following error:
The name "SYSALTINT      :1d" could not be registered on the Interface with
IP address 10.200.2.2. The machine with the IP address 10.200.2.5 did not
allow the name to be claimed by this machine.

I just removed an old windows 2000 server as a DC. I used the
decommissioning process outlined at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Operation
s/b96e3f0a-bf98-4a80-8718-dd80dc1071fd.mspx
It went perfectly. A week or so prior to doing that, I had ...

I am seeing a lot of DNS Event ID 4016 in muylogs after upgrading our domain
controller(holder of all FSMO roles, DHCP and DNS Server)  to Windows server
2003 from windows 2000.
At first the Dc started freezing up every night after the upgrade. I

I have a Windows 2003 installation (no SPs), single domain and site. All
servers and clients are on the same subnet. RIS and DHCP server are installed
on separate boxes, all servers have multiple teamed nics.
When I attempt to PXE boot from a client to RIS an image the system ...

I have set up a child domain and a root domain, and there seems to be
replication problem.  I checked the Active Directory Sites and Services and
there is two way replication shown.  However, when I added a host in child
domain, it is not replicated to the root domain's DNS although ...

We have a development office in India where there's one machine with Windows
Server 2003 acting as a domain controller. That machine has a DNS Server
installed and configured on it. I want to understand the following points:
1- Can that machine be reached from the internet using ...

I had a network with 2 DC's both running AD int DNS, demoted one of them
making sure all FSMO roles were held by the other DC and then promoted it
again as a child in the existing domain
parent 10.0.0.2  mydomain.local (authorative server server01.mydomain.local)

could anyone give me a hint.
I have a IP address in DNS 169.254.121.255 that doesn't belong there.
Our range is 192.xxx.xxx.xxx.
When I delete the (A) record it appears again the next day.

Recently I noticed a particular computer has registered a TXT record
on our internal DNS server. The record contains what appears to be a
"garbage" string of letters/numbers.
DNS client is WinXP Pro SP2, server is Win2003.

I have created a base zone file for mydomain.com.  I would like to copy that
file make changes to it say for mydomain.net and import it.  Most of the
records in the file (A, MX etc) all point to the same IP addresses for .com
and .net.  Is this possible?

All
sorry to ask for such an inexexperienced question..
this is a very simple setup anything not contained below does not exist
present setup

Our SBS2003 server (DC) with the latest patches available can't resolv to
several internet sites like google.nl.
The network is connected to the internet trough a Cisco 1841 router (it
worked for several months from the time of installation), the first LAN

We have DHCP installed on a domain controller, which causes security concerns
unless you set it up to use a dedicated user account's credentials.  My
question is what type of user account should be used?  Should it be part of
the domain administrators group, administrators group, ...

I am having an annoying issue with our Windows 2003 Server of late.  The
users keep losing access to the printers.  If I look at Active Directory on
the server console it gives me this:
"Naming information cannot be located for the following reason: The server