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forgotten nt-password!
the situation: in our company there is a small training center with about 25
i486 clients and one nt4.0 sp3 server as pdc, the network is a token ring.
unfortunately the training-center admin somehow has destroyed his supervisor
account and our it-champs have forgotten the second supervisor-password. so
now we have the funny situation that there is a server with no error but
noone has access to do some modifications.
i'm the lucky one who shall fix it. and i know so wonderfully much about nt,
oh yes i am so happy!! ;-\
there is some data on the server that shall be saved, especially the user
scripts for the clients and some other stuff.
my own idea was to put the hd on another nt-system, copy the data, reformat
the original hd and reinstall nt. however this means much work i guess,
setting up the server by new as a non-expert. so my last hope is that some
of you know a better solution. maybe something like reinstalling nt without
losing all the current settings or cracking the current passwords without
losing the data if this is possible.
ok, just in case i HAVE to set up the server by new is and i am able to save
data from the old installation: which ones are the files containing the
user-accounts, local/global groups, client data,... so that i can just copy
them to the new system to reduce the effort.


well, sorry that i have so many questions, but i don't know exactly what to
do right know and there is no (not to say non at all) support by our own
it-guys.
since the server shall be accessible next week i have to do it fast, means
friday, sat or sun. please answer fast. any help/ideas/tips are welcome.

sven engmann
96wi110@ba-mannheim.de