Windows NT Domains

[wisdomwarrior23]

Hi guys I need some help, I just changed the administrator password for our Windows NT Network and we have an email server and another server that does not log into to it's own domain using the new administrator password. For example

server1 username: administrator
password: 123
Domain: Server1 doesn't work

server1 username: administrator
password: 123
Domain: everyonesDomain works


there are a couple server machines that log into there own domain and I can't log into them using the administrator account that I just changed, now I can log into those machines under the Domain that our network is on which is what all the client machines log into on our network. any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[sixthsense]

i think u r misunderstanding the things
u r changing the admin pass of the domain u made ie."everyonesDomain"
and trying to logon with this admin pass on the local machine's admin account.
while the local admin pass of each machine is different and can be changed only on that machine.
if this is the case then do reply back
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[wisdomwarrior23]

When I log into one of our servers and log on to that server under it's own domain using the new administrator password it doesn't let me log on, but when I log into the regular Domain that everyone logs into using the new admin account on that machine it works for me. Do I need to just add the new admin account for the network on that machine locally for me to be able to do this. Thanks for responding.

 

[sixthsense]

can u first plz explain the whole scenario to me waht r the server's pdc,bdc the domains in ur network etc.
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[wisdomwarrior23]

We have one PDC and and three BDC's on our network.
THE PDC is called Server1
THE BDC's are respectively Server2, Server3, Server4
THe Domain is Everyone
The PDC is logged into the Everyone Domain as administrator
The two BDC's will log into the Everyone Domain as administrator
But one of the BDC's will not let me log into it's machine under it's own Domain account using the administrator account that I use for the other servers in our network. I have to switch Domains to the Everyone Domain to get into the machine. I hope this makes since to you. Basically there are machines on the network that log into there own Domain for example if you had a server called triton and it has it's own Domain called triton that it logs into on the network and all the profiles and configuration is setup under that profile using that Domain, the problem I'm having is I can get into the machine using the admin account but only if I switch from using it's domain to the Everyone Domain. Is it just an issue of adding that admin account to that local machine. Again I hope I'm explaining this good enough for you to understand.

 

[jrdebug]

first of all, i think we have to clear out one thing. There are three possible server configs in NT: PDC, BDC and Stand-alone server.

The PDC and BDC are managing the domain's authentication/validation and MAY contain the resources for sharing. They DO NOT have their own domain/network of their ownselves. when you try to log on locally on DC, whether PDC or BDC, you will only be able to see in the DOMAIN's field from the logon dialog box, its native domain it belongs to and the other domain it trusts.

Stand-alone servers DO NOT validate domain accounts. but they do have their own LOCAL SAM/directory database. This means, there is a built-in Administrator account together with the other built-in accounts and groups as any NT server. Even without an NT domain, you can still logon locally to a stand-alone server. the logon dialog box only has two fields: USER NAME and PASSWORD.

once you add this stand-alone server to a domain, it becomes a MEMBER SERVER. an account for this server is added into the SAM of the domain. this procedure adds another field into the logon dialog box: DOMAIN.

so the next time you log on to this server, you have the option to logon locally or to the domain. but still the native properties of the stand-alone server is preserved.

example:

Domain : Everyone
DC : PDC, BDC1, BDC2
Server : Server1

with the PDC, BDC1, BDC2 they all share the same administrator account because they are domain controllers. with Server1, there are two administrator accounts which can log on, the domain admin and the local admin. both of these accounts are members of the local administrators group of the server itself. the moment Server1 was added to the domain Everyone, the Everyone\Domain Admins group is immediately added to Server1\Administrators local group. but the Server1\Administrator account is preserved and intact.

in your case, i am sure the Server1\Administrator account has a different password than the Everyone\Administrator. good thing is you can log on using the latter account and change/update the password for the former.

i hope this is clear.


Jeffrey Rebong
Computer Engineer/Network Administrator
jrdebug@yahoo.com

 

[sixthsense]

i think jrdebug gave u the solutions as i said both the admin account r different and needs a diff passwd for loging on
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[Guest_imported]

I hope that I have a simple problem, but don't know so much that I can solv iy myself. I have internet access 24h, registered domain, and want to build NT server to host my web pages. Whis NT 4.0 should I install PDC, BDC or Standalone, and if you knoe some good step by step maunal on how to do this let me know. That would be much helpful.

Thanks