Re: Domain Admin password loss

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If you have the DSRM account and password you can do a restore. If that
restore is less than 60 days (tombstoning) old and you known the domain
admin password at the the to when you are restoring. If the OS is installed
on a mirror I would shutdown the server and remove a disk, boot from a
failed mirror. If things go horribly wrong you still have a good mirror disk
to boot from and than rebuild the mirror. For another shot at it.

"Robert Byrne" <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I inherited an office shortly after the domain admin walked off the job.
So here I sit with a server with unknown domain admin password. From the
limited information I've gathered it appears that the password change
occurred on 9-08-06. I believe this is so since prior to that the Veritas
backup jobs were successful...then after they began failing with
authentication issues, denoting the password change. I've tried a variety
of methods for recovering the password:

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
with the use of
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
(However, I'm having much difficulity loading the Perc 4e/Di drivers)

Microsofts version of using the DSRM
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322672) although interesting was not
helpful. Then, I though well I've got backup tapes of the system state
why not restore them, only a week has gone by. Anyone have a clue how to
do this without a disaster recovery disk?

In addition there have been sites recommending installing a parallel
OS...which I can do...however once done...I really don't know where to go
from there. I maybe over thinking things.

Any pointers or other workable options would be welcomed.

Robert



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