Location of User accounts stored on the harddisk?

[Guest]

Hi,

Does anyone know where the users accounts are stored physically on a hard
disk drive? I want to know where it is located in Windows?

TIA
Deep

 

[Paul Bergson]

If you are talking about the physical file name for AD it is ntds.dit
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...tory/ActiveDirectorydatabasefileNTDS.DIT.html

Locally it is the sam file
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=140380