What's wrong with this NT user account?

[Gepost]

I have over 100 users on one NT domain. We have a regular turnover, so when I get a new employee, I usually just rename and account, make a new network folder for the user, and give the new user permissions to use that folder. This week, I did just this, but when I gave the user permission to use the network folder, the old user name appeared instead of the new user. Of course I tried this again with the same results. I then deleted the new user from user manager and renamed another user account. Same result. I then deleted that account and set up a new account. After giving permission to that account for the network folder, I see that it lists it as an unknown account. Also, the user can log into NT, but not the member server with programs.

 

[millsy]

Whenever you make changes to the SAM database, I always manually synchronise the domain controllers. You propably know this, but in Server Manager.

 

[Nothinman]

I always manually synchronise the domain controllers

I believe MS recommends against doing that, not sure why though.

Anyway on a high-speed LAN they should sync up quickly, like under a minute. But on a low-speed connection it can take up to 15 minutes.

 

[Gepost]

I know about the sync and did wait a while. I think something was wrong with my member server. He could log into NT at a workstation, but could not connect to the main server. Yesterday, no one could connect to it and I restarted it and did some maintenance and it seems to be working correctly now. Thanks.