Hi, I wonder if someone can shed some light on a small problem I'm having, I look after an active directory domain with 1 NT 4 BDC and 1 AD PDC this machine also runs exchange 2000 and has SP2 installed.
Someone decided to remove all of the permissions from the c: drive from every file and replaced them with just his personal account, so at this point domain\administrators system, everyone etc had no permissions. The machine was rebooted and did not restart, an error was given saying that AD maybe corrupt and to restart in AD restore mode, this was done and the permissions where reset to allow system, administrators full controll and everyone read access. The machine now boots and acts normally however exchange will not start, and the system attendant service from exchange logs that no AD domain could be found, also a side affect seems to be that the sysvol share is not being shared by the file replication service, when this is manually shared exchange gets a little further (no more AD domain not found error) but still crashes and will not start, unforntatly the backup tapes of this system are also corrupt from poor storage. Any ideas would be appreciated as I dont want to have to reload this machine and loose the exchange mail box stuff. Regards David Abbishaw List info: http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
