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corrupt active directory
Name: maddie_rave Date: December 5, 2002 at 13:18:46 Pacific OS: windows 2000 server CPU/Ram: not my computer
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does anyone know anything about acitve directory? if active directory is corrupted, is there a way to fix it?
Name: Brian Date: December 5, 2002 at 13:35:07 Pacific
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Is it on the DC? or child server
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Response Number 2
Name: maddie_rave Date: December 5, 2002 at 13:43:18 Pacific
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lemme see, i'm asking this for a friend in the first place, and i'm no computer whiz, but it's the main server for a high school.
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Response Number 3
Name: Brian Date: December 5, 2002 at 13:47:13 Pacific
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How many servers are there? if you have just the one , it's really not AD, but it might be setup for it. Why do you think you have a AD problem?
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Response Number 4
Name: maddie_rave Date: December 5, 2002 at 13:50:16 Pacific
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i'll explain what i can, or what i know of it. i'll try to get him on here when he can. there is one server, he recently set up a child domain, and installed service pack 1 (all machines are xp except the server). Suddenly no one could access the server. so he got rid of the child domain and reinstalled service pack 1 on a few machines to see if that was the problem.
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Response Number 5
Name: maddie_rave Date: December 5, 2002 at 13:51:54 Pacific
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but there's more, none of these things appear to be the actual problem. there is a lab aide who likes to think he knows everything and he has a little program that will let people add users, basically reinventing the wheel according to my friend, because AD is what they are using for it. he thinks that somehow this program could have corrupted AD
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Response Number 6
Name: Brian Date: December 5, 2002 at 14:57:31 Pacific
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What is the name of the program that he is using? can you login on the 2000 server localy? service pack 3 is out now why are you using 1? how many 2000 servers and worksta's do you have and what OS are they running.
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Response Number 7
Name: Brian Date: December 5, 2002 at 15:02:29 Pacific
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It's sounds like he has too much right, knock him down to a user status, where he can't change anything...
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Response Number 8
Name: maddie_rave Date: December 5, 2002 at 15:17:06 Pacific
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problem is teacher's stay logged in, and he get's on and changes his user account to himself administrator priveleges. and this guy wrote the program. and i just found out that he has his program getting into AD and searching for a user. the night he did this is the night everything went haywire. it's still a very new network, being put up in the middle of the school year, the net admin is only hired for part time (stupid school politics) and so the security is not as good as it can be
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