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by chrissaw 1 view

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Hi everybody,

I recently have to change an hd on a w2k server. There was three disks. C:, E: and F:. F: is the boot partition. The one I had to change is the E: drive which contain NTDS and SYSVOL directories.

There is a second DC in the Active Directory that I used to transfer Roles RID,PDC and Infrastructure.
I shutdown the DC to change hd whitout changing it. Just reboot in Active Directory Safe Mode. Once there, I take a copy of both directories NTDS and SYSVOL and put them on the C:drive. I shutdown it again, unplugged the E: drive and plugged the new drive. I start it in Active Directory Safe Mode and copy NTDS and SYSVOL directories from C: drive to the new one D: drive.
I start registry editor and search for entry NTDS and replace each entry specifying E:\NTDS by D:\NTDS. I did samething for SYSVOL.
I rebooted the DC in normal mode and it logged in the Domain. When I tried to log on the domain from a win98 client, I received the error Shared file unreachable.

I investigate on the server and found that the Sysvol directory was opening on the first level and the second level also like that:
Sysvol\Sysvol\Domain
But I am not able to open Domain leve to see Script directory where is my logon script file. When I try to open it I receive the following message: Directory was moved or removed.

How may I retrieve this information?

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by maxwell edison

Greetings,

Refer to Microsoft Article Q250545 titled, "SYSVOL Directory Is Slow to Synchronize, Delays Creation of SYSVOL Share and Domain Controller Registration".

SYSVOL Directory Is Slow to Synchronize, Delays Creation of SYSVOL Share and Domain Controller Registration.

Cut and paste this link (REMOVING SPACES that may have snuck into the pasted URL)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q250/5/45.ASP

Maxwell

by chrissaw

Hi Maxwell,
Unfortunately, I was aware of this issue. And the problem is not about synchronization or replication.

The other DC can synchronize and replicate. But it cannot synchronize the domain name under Sysvol\Sysvol\domainname, because at that level, I cannot access it. For the system, its like if the directory is moved or removed. I can see it. That's all.

Thank's anyway

Christian Sawyer

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