Winnt 4 - Backing up Users

[lvennard]

im a non winnt guy but i have a need to backup the users that are on a winnt4 machine.
if the hard drive goes, the data is worthless anyway. All i care about is the users and passwords assigned to that machine.
Ive experimented with using the sam file in the c:\winnt\system32\config directory.
I created a machine, backed up that directory and then formated to start over. When i replace the files with the back up i cannot login at all. Am i going about it the wrong way? Is it so easy that im missing it?
thanx for your help
Larry

 

[Zelandakh]

You are getting problems cos the SID (Security Identifiers) are different. The fastest and easiest way is to stick another server up as a BDC. Two machines sharing the info. No need to back it up cos you have redundancy. No downtime either... and it helps load balance the logging in.

Zel