Re: W2K Authenticating to NT 4.0 Domain Not working....

From: Michael Giorgio - MS MVP (michael.giorgio@NoSpam.mayerson.com)
Date: 08/01/02 

From: "Michael Giorgio - MS MVP" <michael.giorgio@NoSpam.mayerson.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:05:57 -0400

Not exactly. <g>. Netbios is definately routable but it needs some
form of name resolution e.g., WINS or lmhosts. Perhaps you
were thinking of NetBEUI (netbios extended user interface) a
non routable protocol.

"Bugs the Bunny" <michaelremmert@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ehkOHZMOCHA.360@tkmsftngp13...
> Roy, From my experience, your problem revolves around the way that NT4 and
> Win2K resolve names. NT4 uses Netbios, while Win2K used DNS. If I
understand
> correctly, Netbios is not routable. Therefore the Win2k server /
workstation
> is not able to resolve the NT4 names. An LMHOSTS file (from my experience
> will not work). I believe that you will have to implement a WINS server on
> each domain and use that to help resolve the names to the Win2K systems.
> Since WINS is routable, it should be able to carry the name resolution to
> all of the systems in your entire domain structure.
>

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