I had an idea last night that I may try. I managed to get the old SID from a file off the old server. Do you think that if I change the SID on the new NT server that the XP machines will join without complaint?
Ok, the title sums it up nicely. Our sole server at work, an old NT server, bit the bullet this morning(HDD crash). We used our copy of NT, and installed it onto a new machine. We set up user accounts, etc, and 98 machines can join the new domain without problems. The problem is XP. It says...
Well, we finally managed to fix the problem, in an odd way. The computer could access the windows network without problems, but we eventually changed the NIC on a whim, and the problem is solved. Anyone ever heard of that before?
Here at work, we have an NT4 server as the PDC, and a Unix machine running samba to share a proprietary accounting system. This morning, a problem popped up. The win98 machines and all XP machines but one can see the unix computer. This is a problem that I have encountered before(several months...
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