Re: WinNT 4 Wks Joining Win2k AD

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From: Laura E. Hunter \(MVP\) (hunter(nospamplease)_at_sfs.upenn.edu)
Date: 09/08/04


Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:55:10 -0400

That happened to me quite a bit while I still had NT4 boxen. Run an offline
defrag of Active Directory, you should be good to go:

http://www.petri.co.il/active_directory_offline_defragmentation.htm

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"Adam Welch" <NO SPAM WelchAN76@hotmail.com NO SPAM> wrote in message 
news:OGvh35dlEHA.2504@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> To All,
>    We have a Win2k AD Domain with 90+ PCs running Win2k.  We have 5 PCs
> running WinNT 4.  We had a power outage last week in which power was out 
> for
> about 3 hours.  All servers shutdown properly, but the majority of the
> workstations do not have UPS'es.  When the network was powered back up, 
> the
> Win2k PCs connect fine, but the WinNT 4 PCs cannot login to the network. 
> I
> get the following error message:
>    System cannot log you on to this domain because the system's computer
> account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account 
> is
> incorrect.
>    I also get Event ID 3210 in the event log whenever trying to login to
> the network from the problem PCs.
>    I have tried removing them from the domain, deleting the computer
> account from AD and adding back to to the domain, but I still have the 
> same
> results.
>    I have searched thru the KB but cannot find anything else to try.  Has
> anyone else run across this problem?  Thanks for any help you can give!!!
>
> - Adam
>
> 


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