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It appears as if the sam is damaged, there are no repair facilitys to repair such a sam or registry problem other then a valid, resent Windows Nt repair disk. You can try to reinstall and choose upgrade when prompted, but I do not believe this will solve such a problem.<br />

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It appears as if the sam is damaged, there are no repair facilitys to repair such a sam or registry problem other then a valid, resent Windows Nt repair disk. You can try to reinstall and choose upgrade when prompted, but I do not believe this will solve such a problem.


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I'm getting an error in the event log of a WIN NT 4.0 SP3 running on a Compaq Deskpro (PII). The Event ID is 7001 and the mesage 'The Security Account Database contains an internal inconsistency'. <br />
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I can login as Administrator or an of the NT server accounts on the domain SBS, but cannot access any shared directories. The shares appear in the Network Neighborhood, but give 'Access denied' error if opened.<br />
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If I logon as Administrator I can access all shared folders.<br />
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SP3 has been reapply.<br />

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I'm getting an error in the event log of a WIN NT 4.0 SP3 running on a Compaq Deskpro (PII). The Event ID is 7001 and the mesage 'The Security Account Database contains an internal inconsistency'. 

I can login as Administrator or an of the NT server accounts on the domain SBS, but cannot access any shared directories. The shares appear in the Network Neighborhood, but give 'Access denied' error if opened.

If I logon as Administrator I can access all shared folders.

SP3 has been reapply.


Security DB internal inconsistency

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