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Nt 4.0 workstations won,t logon

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by livinginhisword

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I took over a small network with a single domain server running server 2000. The server was down so I dedicated new server. No backup for old server was available nor were any admin passwords. I have rebuilt user accounts and saved the original homefolders from old drive. MY PROBLEM is the machines running NT 4.0 won't logon to new domain. I have tried adding computers by name to active directory. The network is visible in net neighb on these machines.

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by bohicam1

Since you have essentially created a new domain by installing a new server you must rejoin the domain with your workstations. When you created the new server, it created a new security identifier number (SID). As far as the new server is concerned, these workstations of yours have a different SID and therefore are not part of this domain.
Good luck!

Mike

by henrywi

when you said the server were down you mean the hd crashed totally if is the case is good idea to rebuilt a diff servers as you did.

you have win2k server active directory my question is if you have native AD then you won't be able to log into the server with winNT it should be mixed AD. the best thing on the old drive with another partition and install another copy of the win2k OS and restore the admin password as before

by rapidad

When ever a server/client lose track of each other, there is a number passed to the network card (this is a simplification of the situation). that gets out of sequence. this causes you to have to logon to the nt (or w2k) client as administrator (local box), then re-add the client to the server. I have to do this by first dropping the client off the domain to any name of workgroup (choose workgroup and give it any name), then after it tells you welcome to the xxx workgroup, dont restart like it wants just go back and add the domain, which will bring up a logon box which you will fill out with whatever person has the priveledge. then it will tell you welcome to the domain xxx, now restart. It may when trying to disconect from the domain giveyou a message about not being able to find the domain, this is ok, just say OK. this is something that usually happens all the time with ghosted images or tape rebuilds, annoying huh?

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