Domain Controller Dies, How To Rejoin XP Systems to Domain?

[Thomas Cameron]

All -

I have a very small client who runs Windows 2003 server on one machine, and
XP on another machine, in an AD domain model. The server is used as a
workstation, and is configured with AdAware, Spybot S&D, and McAfee, updated
every night.

The owner of the company opened a web site which murdered the server with
malware. I had the machine set up with mirrored drives, but in this case,
it obviously didn't help.

We've got good backups on an external drive of all the apps and data, but
nothing on the actual Active Directory domain. My fault, he didn't want to
spend the money on a tape drive and I should have been more insistent.

I've got the server rebuilt with the same domain name, but obviously this
doesn't help a whole lot. Is there an easy way to re-join the XP
workstation to the domain, keeping home directories the same?

I am looking at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249694 and it seems that
I can create a machine account on the DC, then run:

netdom reset Destination computer /domain:domain_name usero:admin_user
/passwordo:admin_user_password

to get the XP client re-attached to the domain. Is this correct? Will the
users still have their same home directories when they log in?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

 

[Rock]

All -

I have a very small client who runs Windows 2003 server on one machine,
and XP on another machine, in an AD domain model. The server is used as a
workstation, and is configured with AdAware, Spybot S&D, and McAfee,
updated every night.

I've got the server rebuilt with the same domain name, but obviously this
doesn't help a whole lot. Is there an easy way to re-join the XP
workstation to the domain, keeping home directories the same?

You might want to post to a server newsgroup. Here is a list of MS public
newsgroups.
http://www.aumha.org/nntp.htm