Where and how do I backup the local users and groups on a Windows 2003
member server?

Our DCs are still Win2k, but our member servers are running Win2k3. One of
the members is a file server with many locally created groups. The local
groups hold security groups from our domain which we use to limit access to
various file shares on the member server. If the server fails, we have a
backup of the shares and thier data, but where and how do we restore the
local groups and thier containing domain security group members? Is it in
the local system state? Is it stored in Active Directory? There's at least
20 of these locally created groups to restore in the event of a failure.

Thanks in advance.

Bry M <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Where and how do I backup the local users and groups on a Windows 2003
> member server?
>
> Our DCs are still Win2k, but our member servers are running Win2k3. One of
> the members is a file server with many locally created groups.
> The local groups hold security groups from our domain which we use to
> limit access to various file shares on the member server. If the
> server fails, we have a backup of the shares and thier data, but
> where and how do we restore the local groups and thier containing
> domain security group members? Is it in the local system state? Is
> it stored in Active Directory? There's at least 20 of these locally
> created groups to restore in the event of a failure.
> Thanks in advance.

System state.

But why aren't you using AD groups for everything?

Thanks.

We have Global groups setup in AD, but the local ones were setup by my
manager. He had read somewhere this was the correct way to do it, but I
think it was based more on NT4 or when doing a migration from. We plan to
do away with the local groups once we upgrade the domain to Win2k3.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Bry M <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Where and how do I backup the local users and groups on a Windows 2003
>> member server?
>>
>> Our DCs are still Win2k, but our member servers are running Win2k3. One
>> of the members is a file server with many locally created groups.
>> The local groups hold security groups from our domain which we use to
>> limit access to various file shares on the member server. If the
>> server fails, we have a backup of the shares and thier data, but
>> where and how do we restore the local groups and thier containing
>> domain security group members? Is it in the local system state? Is
>> it stored in Active Directory? There's at least 20 of these locally
>> created groups to restore in the event of a failure.
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> System state.
>
> But why aren't you using AD groups for everything?
>

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| We have Global groups setup in AD, but the local ones were setup by my
| manager. He had read somewhere this was the correct way to do it, but I
| think it was based more on NT4 or when doing a migration from. We plan
to
| do away with the local groups once we upgrade the domain to Win2k3.
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|
| "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
| <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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| news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
| > Bry M <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
| >> Where and how do I backup the local users and groups on a Windows 2003
| >> member server?
| >>
| >> Our DCs are still Win2k, but our member servers are running Win2k3.
One
| >> of the members is a file server with many locally created groups.
| >> The local groups hold security groups from our domain which we use to
| >> limit access to various file shares on the member server. If the
| >> server fails, we have a backup of the shares and thier data, but
| >> where and how do we restore the local groups and thier containing
| >> domain security group members? Is it in the local system state? Is
| >> it stored in Active Directory? There's at least 20 of these locally
| >> created groups to restore in the event of a failure.
| >> Thanks in advance.
| >
| > System state.
| >
| > But why aren't you using AD groups for everything?
| >
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