Domain controller died - now what?

[binny]

My Win2003 PDC died and I need to get the backups off the NAS, but since the AD is totally gone, there is seemingly no way to authenticate when I try to connect via \\[IP]\share, etc.

I can get to it via HTTP or FTP, but they are both SLOW (FTP is only 51kb/sec on a gigabit network - I have no idea why) and in the case of HTTP the browser does not like it when I right-click on the image to download. It only saves part of the file.

Is there any way to temporarily change to Shared or User access to get the files? We plan to rebuild the PDC as soon as we can and then want to go back to domain security. If it can't be done temporarily, how big if a mess will this make with my permissions? For that matter, any way to speed up FTP?

Also, I've got old firmware - will newer firmware help with this issue?

Thanks!

Model: ReadyNAS NV
Firmware: 2.00c1-p9

Neal

[Skywalker]

If you were running a RAIDiator 3 release, your FTP speeds should be much faster.

However, I think the best thing you can do right now would be to switch to User security mode. This shouldn't change any permissions, so you should be in good shape there. Then log into the share as "admin" with your Frontview admin password, and copy off what you need. In user mode, the "admin" user has full access to all files on the NAS.

Once you domain controller is back up and running, you should be able to switch back to domain security mode without any problems.

The pressing reasons to upgrade your RAIDiator release would be (1) to get improved FTP performance, and (2) because RAIDiator 3 has a Domain ID mapping export/import function, which you can use to back up the UserID mapping from the domain controller to the ReadyNAS. I would recommend doing this as a safeguard, to protect yourself from having permissions problems.