dirtydave931

Originally posted by mnas: Quote: About MAC addresses: I don't believe the MAC address is of much importance to the domain structure. If I'm not misstaken it is only used by network hardware (routers, swtches, etc) and the network protocol of the OS. If it were critical to the PDC role you wouldn't even be able to change a failed NIC in a domain controller. Or use multiple NIC's in a PDC. Am I right? Feel free to correct me if I'm not. That sounds correct to me.

Unfortunately, I need to keep that other PDC from the small network for the time being. I know I can't have two PDCs, I want to treat it as though it's a workstation on my larger domain. The only reason I need to keep it is because a manufacturer (who will remain nameless, but they're from Sweden and are now owned by Ford) is moving all of their parts catalogs to the Internet. In the mean time, this machine must have outside Internet access, but it still has to have the old parts catalog on it. Normally I would just install the catalog on another machine, but some dunce at this location managed to lose the data DVDs. Is there a way (without reformatting, lots of down time, etc) to make this machine join our domain???

I am a sys admin for a chain of car dealerships. We currently have an NT 4.0 Domain (to be replaced by 2003 server, shortly--thank god). A manufacturer has changed the way we access their data and we have inherited a Windows NT 4.0 Server that is a PDC for a domain that consists of three or four computers and is isolated from the rest of our network. I would like to add it to our own domain. I changed the IP address, subnet mask, DNS, WINS, created a hosts file and all that other fun crap but when I try to add it to our domain, it wants to manage it, not be a part of it. I added the machine's new node name on our current server as well. Is there a way to make this machine join our domain, rather than attempt to manage it and then spit back and error message saying that there is already a domain by that name being used on our network? Thanks for any advice.