Re: HELP - Loosing access to NT domain users

From: Michael Giorgio - MS MVP (michael.giorgio_at_NoSpam.mayerson.com)
Date: 06/07/03


Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:25:34 -0400


When the problem occurs attempt to ping the NT PDC by tcp/ip
address. If this is successful you can most likely rule out cable, NIC,
or routing problems. Next attempt to map to a share on the PDC. Is
this successful? If not what is the exact error you are seeing? BTW
the SAM is not lost, its unreachable. The user accounts you see are
short cuts or pointers to the actual user account which resides in the
NT 4.0 domain. When the domain is unreachable the user accounts
cannot be identified.

"Eric Bracke" <bds.eric@skynet.be> wrote in message
> We have a NT4.0 (SP6a) Domain with Win2000 Servers as member servers.
> One of the Win2000 Servers is used as Terminal Services and Radius logon
> Server (VPN).
>
> Sometimes it looses connection to the NT domain users. If that happens,
none
> of our teleworkers can logon with the VPN. When I start explorer on the
> server, I can see the WinNT domain, but when I open the properties of any
> file, and select the security tab, the names of the users in the list are
> replaced by there CLSID (see attached files). This is how I can see that
the
> connection to the NT users DB is lost.
>
> The only way I found to get access to the users db again is to re-start
the
> NT domain controller, wich is also our main file server. This is not a
> workable solution.
>
> I already restart following services, but does not help:
> NETLOGON (on both NT and Win2000 servers)
> IAS (on Win2000 server)
>
> Can anyone help ???
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> eeBee
>
>
>
>



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