FoxPacific
Programmer
Hi All,
Have I got a doosey, here it goes:
I have a Windows NT 4.0 box that is an old P II 200 Mhz with 64 MB RAM and an 8 GB drive that is partitioned to 1 & 7 GB. My intention was to have the box operate as our FTP server and also handle backups of the Win 2000 Server that we also have.
I know backups over the network is not a good idea but I have a very small network and certain circumstances that allow me to do this effectively. The other reason is because our Onstream drive does work under Win2k but doesn't take advantage of any compression which is 3:1 on the NT server, which means I'd have to buy three times as much backup tapes.
The problem is, I used a 500 MB drive to initally install WinNT 4.0 on the small server which appeared to be enough in the beginning but after the service packs and apps were loaded left me with only 3MB of disk space.
I didn't want to redo the installation of all the service packs and option packs and apps and everything else, which took a very long time on that slow computer. So, I installed the bigger drive and did a quick installation of WinNT 4.0 and then just copied all the files from the old drive (500MB) to the new drive (8GB).
Everything worked fine except when I try to logon to the Primary domain it says that the computer account for the small server doesn't exist in the Primary domain.
Does anyone have any idea of how I can fix this?
Thanks in advance for, one, even getting this far down the post and two, for any help you are able to offer.
Aloha,
James
Have I got a doosey, here it goes:
I have a Windows NT 4.0 box that is an old P II 200 Mhz with 64 MB RAM and an 8 GB drive that is partitioned to 1 & 7 GB. My intention was to have the box operate as our FTP server and also handle backups of the Win 2000 Server that we also have.
I know backups over the network is not a good idea but I have a very small network and certain circumstances that allow me to do this effectively. The other reason is because our Onstream drive does work under Win2k but doesn't take advantage of any compression which is 3:1 on the NT server, which means I'd have to buy three times as much backup tapes.
The problem is, I used a 500 MB drive to initally install WinNT 4.0 on the small server which appeared to be enough in the beginning but after the service packs and apps were loaded left me with only 3MB of disk space.
I didn't want to redo the installation of all the service packs and option packs and apps and everything else, which took a very long time on that slow computer. So, I installed the bigger drive and did a quick installation of WinNT 4.0 and then just copied all the files from the old drive (500MB) to the new drive (8GB).
Everything worked fine except when I try to logon to the Primary domain it says that the computer account for the small server doesn't exist in the Primary domain.
Does anyone have any idea of how I can fix this?
Thanks in advance for, one, even getting this far down the post and two, for any help you are able to offer.
Aloha,
James