Hi all,

I have a problem investigating an IT security breach in my organisation. I have restored the shared folder area of a file and print server on our network to a test server such that I can look at permissions set on these shared folders (I cant visit the server itself, its in another country).

Having done this, when I look at the permissions and ownerships of the folders my server reports "account unkown". This is reasonable as my SAM doesn't know about the accounts on the server from which the folders were taken. So I copied across the SAM from that server hoping I could then usefully check who had permissions to various filders.

But in copying across the SAM, I found I couldn't log onto the box at all, even though I know the Domain Admin password. I assume this is due to my test server being in a different domain to that which the imported SAM came from.

Does anyone know of a way around this? Perhaps there is an import tool that allows me to import shared folders and accounts into a different domain? But if I import this information (rather than just directly copying the data across) I don't want to lose the original file and folder permissions. Any thoughts, anyone?

Thanking you all in advance for any advice,

Alan Mott