Situation: We have two offices in different states. Both have domains named the same. Both are using different IP scopes and assigning IP addresses via DHCP. One is a Windows 2000 domain, the other 2003. I'd like to get all users to log into the 2003 domain. What would be a logical way to solve this problem? I've learned that adprep is a necessary tool to use when migrating 2000/2003 domains but what else would I need to do?

you can't share the same name space, one of you has to be a diff name space ( mydomain.local and the other mydomain.com example) then I would do one of 2 things 1. upgrade the 2000 server to 2003 and setup a ext trust or make it a child of the main name space ( the other 2003 box) 2.) change the name space of the 2003 box to something else and setup a ext trust between the 2. the reason to change 2003 name space box is, that in 2003 you can rename the DNS name space, in 2000 you can't unless you demote the DC to a member server then re-promote it to a dc with the desired name space.

Actually, the better solution is to have one become a child domain of the other. Since you want users authenticated on the 2003 domain, I would suggest making the 2000 domain a child of the 2003. This would require some serious setup tho as your DNS namespace for the 2000 domain would have to change (naturally). This would negate the use of trusts and you wouldn't have to change your IP addressing schemes as the one would be a remote site of the other.

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