adding computers to 2000 domain

[watts3000]

I'm using a windows 2000 network running in native mode. MY question is why does the netbios name have to be used when adding computers to a domain. For example, if your domain is greatone.dns2go.com in order to add to domain you must simpley put in greatone and not greatone.dns2go.com.

 

[stash]

I'm not quite sure what your question is, but you can in fact type either the netbios name (greatone) or the FQDN (greatone.dns2go.com) when adding Win2k boxes to a Win2k domain.

 

[Saltin]

In this particular case, "greatone" is not, infact, a NetBIOS name. It is a portion of a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). All 2k clients append names like this.
So if my computer name is "test" and the domain is anything.com, when I enter say, ping test at the command prompt, the computer looks looks to check which domain suffixes have been entered in the TCP/IP properties> Advanced> DNS tab. Generally the domain to which the client is a member is automatically appended.
You can disable this behavior in the same place.