Greetings!
OK, here's the story: Like a few other folks, we've just discovered
that our backups (using BackupExec) did NOT have the Active Directory info
backed up properly. The previous DC is toast, and restoring to either the
old hardware config or a new hardware config has been nothing short of a
lesson in futility. The other server in the domain, even after seizing
control, will not behave as the new "PDC". After numerous errors trying to
reestablish a necessary trust with "Domain A", we successfully removed the
trust from "Domain A", but any attempts to remove it from the problem domain
("Domain B") returns an Active Directory dialog box with the error "The
specified user does not exist". We've been fighting to reconstruct things
for three days now and we've pretty well decided to just move on. We have
the users' data directories & files, and have a new "Domain C" already set
up and trusted with "Domain A".
So, here's what we'd *like* to do: Since we can still see all of the
old users in "Domain B", we need to know if there is a way to copy the user
accounts to "Domain C". If there *is* some way to do that, it'd certainly be
easier than spending the next several days running batch files & scripts to
create the old users in the new domain, then setting up sharing &
permissions on 1200+ directories on the data drive.
Is this even possible, or are we simply going to have to roll up our
sleeves and do it "long hand"?
Thanks,
Monte Barnett
Network Tech
Burlington-Edison School District
Burlington, WA 98233
(360) 757-3344
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