In your Windows 2000 mixed-mode domain, Windows NT 4.0 BDCs don't replicate. The BDC's System event log records:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: NETLOGON
Event ID: 5730
Description: Replication of the SAM global group 0x201 from primary DC PDCName
failed with the following error:
Either the specified user account is already a member of the specified group, or the specified group cannot be deleted because it already contains a member.
This behavior will occur if a Windows 2000 user account is explicitly a member of its Primary Group, since in Windows 2000, a user is NOT explicitly a member of their Primary Group.
NOTE: See A user's Member attribute is NOT populated with the Primary Group?
If a user is explicitly added to their Primary Group in Active Directory, the Windows NT 4.0 BDC thinks that the user account is a member of the group twice, which generates the error, and stops the BDC from replicating changes.
To workaround this behavior, you must remove the user account from its' Primary Group:
1. Convert the RID (0x201) in the event message to decimal (513).
2. Find the build-in group. If the group was created, use Getsid.exe to match a RID with the group name.
3. Remove the explicit addition of a user from their Primary Group.
To find users who are explicitly a member of their Primary Group, I have scripted XPGM.bat.
NOTE: XPGM.bat uses primaryGroupID.bat, which must be located in a folder that is in your path.
XPGM.bat, which requires no parameters, contains:
@echo off
setlocal
for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('dsquery group') do (
for /f "Tokens=*" %%b in ('dsget group %%a -members') do (
call :ispg %%a %%b
)
)
endlocal
goto :EOF
:ispg
set group=%1
set user=%2
set usr=%user:"=%
set qry=dsquery * domainroot -filter "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(distinguishedName=%usr%))" -attr primaryGroupID
for /f "Tokens=*" %%c in ('%qry%') do (
set pgi=%%c
)
set pgi=%pgi: =%
set pgi=%pgi: =%
call primaryGroupID %pgi% pgidn
if /i %group% NEQ %pgidn% goto :EOF
@echo %group% %user% %pgidn%
NOTE: For a
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article solution, see
Netlogon 5730 Events on a Windows NT 4.0 Backup Domain Controller in a Windows 2000 Domain.
