Re: Windows Server 2003 configuration question

Hello Anne,

If this was the only DC and you do not have an actual backup from the system state, you are lost and have either, to rebuild the domain and join the workstations again to the new domain, even if i thas the same name because the SID from the domain is diffferent from the old domain and so the clients/users can not authenticate against it or you have to bring all workstations and the server to the same workgroup and have to create on the server and the workstations ALL user accounts with the same password to use shares etc.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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The hard drive crashed on the server of one of my clients and upon
reinstallation, the IT person did not re-create the domain because it
was too
much work and he wants to wait until Small Business Server 2008 is out
to
reconfigure the server.
Now the server is in a different workgroup than the workstations and
it is
creating big problems with permission and access, but I am running
into a
wall trying to get him to change it. His reasoning for making the
change from
a domain to a workgroup was that if he configured the server as domain
again,
he would have to redo all the workstations.
Am I wrong in assuming that if he had configured the new hard drive
with the
same domain and users as before, the workstation should have just
found the
server again, just as they did before?
I searched the net and found nothing about a possible release date for
SBS
2008. Does anyone believe this is going to happen soon?


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