RE: NTDS.dit seems to be missing?

From: John VG (JohnVG_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:27:02 -0700

Thanks for the tip. the HKLM reg helped the most. I Forgot there was a "D"
drive and my sysvol and NTDS folder was there.

"John VG" wrote:

> 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!