Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

log on

Synopsis

Log on to the network, and specify a new user principal name (UPN) suffix for users.

Procedures

For information about the two different types of logon names supported by Windows 2000, see logon .

Log on to the Network

Press Ctrl-Alt-Del at the Welcome to Windows box on a Windows 2000 machine to open the Log On To Windows box, and then specify a username and password. You can specify the domain you want to log on to in one of two ways:

• Select the domain you want to log on to in the Log On To text box (click Options if the Log On To text box is not visible in the Log On To Windows dialog box). Note that the pre-Windows 2000 (NetBIOS) domain name—not the DNS name of the domain—is displayed in this text box. If you specify the domain this way, you enter the user account name (the downlevel username) in the Username text box.

• Specify the domain in the Username text box by typing the username followed by an @ symbol and then the DNS name of the domain (the UPN suffix for the domain). For example, if user Mary Smith with username msmith wants to log on to the domain mtit.com, she could type the following in the Username text box:

  [e-mail]

  This is equivalent to specifying the user logon name (UPN) for the user (see logon ). Note that when you enter a username like this in the Username box, the Log On To text box becomes unavailable.

You can also select Options → “Log on using dial-up connection” to log on to the network using a modem or other dial-up networking connection. ...