Domain users Issue

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moyeen

I just promoted a server to be the domain controller in our network.
The whole setup was fine and other servers are able to join the domain.
Now, strangely enough I started off with file server to provide home
direrctories for the users but I don't see the users so that I could
distribute their home space. In short, when I want to add a specific
user to have access to his/her home on the file server, I'm not able to
find the users. Hopefully, I was clear enough but if you need more
explaination I'll be glad to try my best to do it. And obviously, if
anybody has any idea about what the problem might me, please letme
know.

Thanks in advance,
Sunny
 
If you are trying to add domain users to a file -or- folder select the item
and right click and select properties. From there select the security tab
and then the add button.

On here you should see a "Locations" button, select this and make sure that
you are starting from the root of your domain. Next click the "Advanced"
button. Now click the "Find Now" button, this will list all you user and
group objects.

This is a long way around but this will get you started to find the users.
If you know the exact user Id then you could have entered it in the prevoius
box in the "Enter the object names to select" window.

Does this help, or was it something else?
 
Paul thanks for your reply but I'm sorry that is not the problem. The
problem is under locations I dont see the root domain (e.g abc.com), I
just see the local server only. Well, it won't be true if I say I
don't see it at all. I see it sometimes and sometimes I don't. And
whenever I see it and hit advanced to select the domain users or even
type it manually I get an error saying "This server is not
operational". I did look up the issue and found it on Microsoft KB but
it didn't help. I'll really appreciate if you could please help me out
with this issue. Just to re explain the issue, from that member server
which is joining the domain I don't see the domain users and more than
that under location I don't even see the root domain all the time. It
looks very strange to me. Any input will be helpful.

Thanks,
S
 
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