Re: NTDS.dit seems to be missing?

From: Dmitri Gavrilov [MSFT] (dmitrig_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:06:32 -0600

It could have been created in a non-default location. You can find out what
this location is with ntdsutil or by examining
HKLM/System/CCS/Services/NTDS/Parameters key.

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"John VG" <JohnVG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> From my XP computer I search my 3 domain controlers for the NTDS.dit file.
On
> all three servers I find under the system32 folder the NTDS.dit file w/
size
> of 6.160 KB created on 5/8/2001 5:00AM.  BUT on two of the three servers I
> only find a  "REAL" NTDS.dit file, located under the NTDS folder. It has
> recent time stamp and it's fairly large, (75MB).  I've turned on hidden
files
> and system files for my searches but still can not figure out if it even
> exists.
> I've also checked repelecation between the 3 servers and this looks
norman.
> Has any one ever seen this ?  Thank You!


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