Active Directory Server

[Muraleedaran Kanapathy]

Hi

I have Installed Active Directory Server and W2K
Professional Clients and when i reinstalled the active
directory server with the same settings as the old one
all the clients ( w2k professional pc's )need to rejoin
the domain and the client profiles get changed

Rgds
Muralee

 

[Danny Sanders]

When you set up a domain a SID is associated with that domain. When you
reinstalled the server it created a new SID to be associated with the new
domain. Even if you set the same name as the old domain the SID is
different.

Different SID = different domain. You have to join computers to the new
domain.

FYI that is one reason to set up a second DC in the domain. If one fails,
the other can keep the domain up and running until you properly replace the
failed DC.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE