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Removing FPNW from a PDC Causes Loss of Netware Compatible Login

Article ID: 164354

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Services for Netware 4.0

This article was previously published under Q164354

SUMMARY

If File and Print Services for NetWare (FPNW) is installed on a primary domain controller (PDC) and must be removed and reinstalled, the NetWare Compatible Login properties of all such domain users will be lost unless a backup domain controller (BDC) is present in the domain.

MORE INFORMATION

To avoid losing those properties, perform the following steps:

Verify that a BDC exists in the domain, and that it has FPNW installed.
Before removing FPNW from the PDC, temporarily promote the BDC to a PDC to retain the user properties.
After FPNW has been successfully removed and reinstalled on the BDC (the former PDC), promote it back to PDC.

For more information, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: 150540
TITLE : FPNW on Domain Must Be Installed on PDC

Additional query words: prodnt

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