Connecting Windows 7 to NT4 domain?

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Solution 1

Windows 7 cannot joint an NT4 domain.

The only solution would be to join the domain from within XP Mode.

Solution 2

Windows 7 is looking for an Active Directory domain, which NT4 does not have. It is not supported and I don't see any sort of patch available. The lowest possibility is a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like you'll have to wait around for Win2K3.

Solution 3

Microsoft made it virtually impossible to join a Windows 7 machine to a NT 4.0 Domain. So your best bet it is either to boot in Win Xp mode or wait on the Server 2003.....Sorry.

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Shane

Quantitative researcher focusing on statistics and machine learning methods in finance. Primarily use R, C++, Python, various databases (including OneTick and KDB), and LaTeX on a daily basis. Twitter: @statalgo Blog: http://www.statalgo.com (largely inactive) Former moderator on data analysis stack exchange site: http://stats.stackexchange.com/ Proposer of Quantitative Finance stack exchange site: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/117/quantitative-finance?referrer=EZoOPpokWeo1

Updated on September 17, 2022

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Shane over 1 year

My office domain is NT4, but I have a windows 7 laptop. I've been told that I won't be able to log on. Does anyone know a work around for this?

They're planning to upgrade to Windows 2003, but that could be a little while.
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Shane over 14 years

So, you can go into XP mode and connect to the domain from there?