this is how i am doing nonauthoritative restore, tell me if i miss something
The backup (system state) was like 3 months old.
my hard drive crashes, i replace my hard drive (same drive size and letter)
and installed operating system,
then i restart my computer >>F8 >> directory services mode>>>ntbackup and
restore system state to its otiginal location.
after doing i restart the server and in normal mode, i can see my DNS and
DHCP, IP configuration.as it was before but i cant see the three consoles in
Administration Tools nor did any security policy, (DNS and DHCP are
showing lists of user and computers but they are not giving any lease to
clients now.)
i recreate mmc to add a snap in and it shows Active directory users and
computers.but they are not working, users cant login, and they are l,ike not
providing services.
i creatd a new user to test but it cant login, as there is no user on that
name.
i am getting no error message ......