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Anonymous   11-23-2004 at 11:18:51 AM

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Due to a restriction, AD can't be used in this scenario.
Is there any creative way to synchronize accounts and
passwords between stand-alone Win2k servers? Any help
would be very appreciated.

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Anonymous   11-24-2004 at 12:09:47 AM
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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

 

Not that I know of. In NT4.0 some reported success in copying the sam file
from one server to the other but I don't believe that will work in W2K
because of syskey being enforced by default and other protection features.
If you try that make sure you have a full backup before trying. Users can be
trained to change their password on multiple servers via ctrl-alt-delete
change password by entering the names of the servers in logon to box.---
Steve


"Adam O" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Due to a restriction, AD can't be used in this scenario.
> Is there any creative way to synchronize accounts and
> passwords between stand-alone Win2k servers? Any help
> would be very appreciated.

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Anonymous   11-24-2004 at 04:46:08 AM
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Other than reinventing a Windows domain you could look at
using those Windows boxen as clients in a Kerberos realm,
or at handing of NT4ish domain work to Samba.

Sync'ing usernames and passwords through user initiated
changes between stand-alones can be more work than you
might think, at least if it is done well, fault tolerant and failsafe.

--
Roger
"Adam O" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:141d01c4d15e$f965dcf0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Due to a restriction, AD can't be used in this scenario.
> Is there any creative way to synchronize accounts and
> passwords between stand-alone Win2k servers? Any help
> would be very appreciated.

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