Windows 2000 account problem

I have two machines, one of which is a webserver using iis. I was tinkering with the machine and exploring the intricacies of windows until the aspnet account was accidentally destroyed. I looked up how to make another one on ms's website, but i got lost. can anyone help me make another one? or another solution may be to copy the existing aspnet account settings from my other computer to the webserver, but i don't know if that's possible. can anyone help me on it? thanks.

 

have you tried re-installing .NET?

 

yep

 

post the link to the instructions you mentioned

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q315158

 

what version of the frame work do you have? 1.0 or 1.1 and did you uninstall the framework before you reinstalled it?

 

ok, uninstall/reinstall worked (not the first time... oddly).

so, is there a way to actually copy account settings from one computer to another? Now i might need to do that for another reason: I found that MS has a trial version of server 2003 available, so i decided to download it and am about to install it in another computer. so... any quick ways to doing it or is it just easier to just recreate the accounts on the new machine?

EDIT: the accounts there, but for soem reason, my asp.net webpage still won't work, giving me a "Server Application Unavailable" error page. I guess i'll give server 2003 a shot.

 

sorry strogg, most of that is still pretty new and I haven't had the time to dig into it all yet.

 

Isn't that always the way?

Windows 2000 had migration tools that did exactly this, but because you're massively updating Active Directory on the new machine, you should back up each machine before you even think about starting.

I assume such tools exist in 2003, but I have no way of confirming that. A search for migration tools on technet should turn something up.

 

its probably easier to recreate the users after installing 2003, ive got a feeling i tried to do this went going froma 2000 advanced server setup to 2003 RC1, and went pear shaped. At least that way you can make sure that there arnt any silly defaults on sharing and secuirty

 

Yeah it is pretty much a tradeoff of either inputting al the accounts again or figuring out how windows screwed up after the migration. If you've got 1,000's of users, though, it would be worth it.