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Its always best to copy data from an NT server to another w2k server rather than the other way round - the troubleshooting article at mcpmag - Q&A explains the reasons why. Well worth remembering for those nt4 to windows2k3 migrations.

Although its not a good idea to do this, we have a requirement to set the passwords for users on a telnet application so that they never expire. This is because the telnet interface is the only interface they have with the server and therefore they don't have any way of changing their passwords. Security is controlled by another layer of usernames and passwords within the app so its not that much of an issue.
Anyway, I have a script that creates all the users for me - saves me having to enter all the fields correctly and also ensures that all the fields are entered in a uniform manner.
Until this morning, I'd not been able to set the password never expires option. However using netuser.exe, available from JSI Tip 570 you can do this with netuser username /pwdnexp:y

Anyone got any theories on this? One of our customers has a box where task manager icon is showing a high cpu usage, the bottom of taskman shows 67% used, yet the cpu usage on the processes window shows 97% idle at the same time. Screen shot shown. If the server is rebooted the problem goes away for about a week before it starts to happen again. tl_server is our telnet server application so it is normal behaviour to have lots of copies running.

The server that I had to do a full restore on yesterday was scary...After it was plugged back in the domain it would not allow clients to authenticate. I suspected that this was due to the fact that it was restored from a tape over 2 weeks old and therefore the SAM on this server was out of date with the SAM on the PDC. Trying to use netdom (the one from supplement 4 to the resource kit) kept on coming up with access denied errors and was therefore not much use. Overnight I scheduled a reboot of the pdc and did nothing else to the BDC as I was going to attempt a fix this morning...however when I got there, the users were working away - I guess the reboot had synched everything up properly (thankfully)

What a nightmare. It's now 3 hours into the restore and I'm just cataloguing the tape for the first time....

Useful source for downloading individual files from the NT4 Resource kit