HP CIFS Windows 2000 Interoperability (October 2002)
CIFS/9000 and Windows 2000 Interoperability
Hewlett-Packard
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clients remains. This flexibility must be offset against the added benefits of enabling Native
Mode.
In Native Mode, a one-way transition is executed. Once the Native Mode switch has been
enabled, there is no returning to Mixed Mode. It is a permanent, one-way change. The
benefits are: the addition of Domain Local groups, Universal Groups, and grou p nesting. An
additional feature gained is the ability to utilize SIDHistory, and the associated migration
tools ADMT and ClonePrinciple. The detriments are the permanent status, and the
resulting lack of flexibility.