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

From: _Mike_ (Mike@nospam.com)
Date: 08/01/02 

From: "_Mike_" <Mike@nospam.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:27:39 +0100

Correct, it is routable, but depending on the implementation, it could
rely on broadcasts which many routers will not route, either by design
or setup.

http://support.baynetworks.com/library/tpubs/html/router/soft1200/117358AA/B
_39.HTM

Cheers
Mike

"Michael Giorgio - MS MVP" <michael.giorgio@NoSpam.mayerson.com> wrote in
message news:uOTOS3NOCHA.2372@tkmsftngp09...
> 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.
> >
>
>