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Vortigern Wolf
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Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:
Cannot login to server with Administrator account. |
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Hi,
Have a Windows 2000 small buisness server and am unable to login directly to
it, with the administrator account.
Basically it looks like the desktop is failing to load correctly. It just
sits at the background screen with no Icons and no start bar.
Although the server is working properly. Its picking up its emails, dishing
out its files and prints and doing all the things a server should do.
You just cant login with the administrator account. You cant remote access
the server with the administrator account as well.
But you can access the server with an account that has administrator rights.
I have been able to get to the event viewer and do not see any untoward
errors when the administrator is loggin in.
If the administrator profile is corrupted you are unable to delete the
profile and re-create it. You can log onto the workstations with the
administrator account.
The server does not seem to want to shutdown correctly as well. You cannot
shut it down from the administrator account because you cannot access
anything. But if you shut the server down remotly it does not shut down and
you have to power it off from the button.
The server has 960 meg of hard drive space avaiable to it on its C: drive.
I know its low, but would this be causing the problem?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this problem?
Thankyou in advance. |
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SuperGumby [SBS MVP]
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Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Cannot login to server with Administrator account. |
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think about this before proceeding, and if anyone else has any input please
feel free to chime in, however I would not expect anything crucial to
operation to be in the admin profile and it does sound as if it is corrupt.
You can login to a WS with admin credentials, either as the Domain
Administrator, or equivalent admin rights. Start, run, \\server\C$ and
navigate to the admin profile (docs and settings\administrator), delete it.
If you are running a roaming profile for admin, delete it also and don't
sign off the WS you are using (else the profile, if roaming, will be written
back to the server).
AGAIN, _THINK_ about this one. My immediate reaction is that nothing
untoward will happen, and that any consequences will be outweighed by
restoration of the admin profile.
"Vortigern Wolf" <Vortigern Wolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B46847D1-EEAA-4912-B2EA-16CD86958338@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Hi,
Have a Windows 2000 small buisness server and am unable to login directly
to
it, with the administrator account.
Basically it looks like the desktop is failing to load correctly. It just
sits at the background screen with no Icons and no start bar.
Although the server is working properly. Its picking up its emails,
dishing
out its files and prints and doing all the things a server should do.
You just cant login with the administrator account. You cant remote
access
the server with the administrator account as well.
But you can access the server with an account that has administrator
rights.
I have been able to get to the event viewer and do not see any untoward
errors when the administrator is loggin in.
If the administrator profile is corrupted you are unable to delete the
profile and re-create it. You can log onto the workstations with the
administrator account.
The server does not seem to want to shutdown correctly as well. You
cannot
shut it down from the administrator account because you cannot access
anything. But if you shut the server down remotly it does not shut down
and
you have to power it off from the button.
The server has 960 meg of hard drive space avaiable to it on its C: drive.
I know its low, but would this be causing the problem?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this problem?
Thankyou in advance.
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Vortigern Wolf
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Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Cannot login to server with Administrator account. |
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Accessed the c drive on the server, but it would not let us either rename or
delete the administrator profile under docs and settings. We recieved the
access denied error. Even though the administrator account is not logged in.
I had received a message from the server before when trying to delete the
administrator profile that said the profile could not be deleted because the
administrator account is part of the system and required.
"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
| Quote: | think about this before proceeding, and if anyone else has any input please
feel free to chime in, however I would not expect anything crucial to
operation to be in the admin profile and it does sound as if it is corrupt.
You can login to a WS with admin credentials, either as the Domain
Administrator, or equivalent admin rights. Start, run, \\server\C$ and
navigate to the admin profile (docs and settings\administrator), delete it.
If you are running a roaming profile for admin, delete it also and don't
sign off the WS you are using (else the profile, if roaming, will be written
back to the server).
AGAIN, _THINK_ about this one. My immediate reaction is that nothing
untoward will happen, and that any consequences will be outweighed by
restoration of the admin profile.
"Vortigern Wolf" <Vortigern Wolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B46847D1-EEAA-4912-B2EA-16CD86958338@microsoft.com...
Hi,
Have a Windows 2000 small buisness server and am unable to login directly
to
it, with the administrator account.
Basically it looks like the desktop is failing to load correctly. It just
sits at the background screen with no Icons and no start bar.
Although the server is working properly. Its picking up its emails,
dishing
out its files and prints and doing all the things a server should do.
You just cant login with the administrator account. You cant remote
access
the server with the administrator account as well.
But you can access the server with an account that has administrator
rights.
I have been able to get to the event viewer and do not see any untoward
errors when the administrator is loggin in.
If the administrator profile is corrupted you are unable to delete the
profile and re-create it. You can log onto the workstations with the
administrator account.
The server does not seem to want to shutdown correctly as well. You
cannot
shut it down from the administrator account because you cannot access
anything. But if you shut the server down remotly it does not shut down
and
you have to power it off from the button.
The server has 960 meg of hard drive space avaiable to it on its C: drive.
I know its low, but would this be causing the problem?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this problem?
Thankyou in advance.
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Chris
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Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Cannot login to server with Administrator account. |
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Before you can "release" the profile you have to reboot the server and don't
log in from the server. Delete the profile from the WS as recommended.
"Vortigern Wolf" <VortigernWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5F5F9A87-B3BB-4B90-A750-8C0B15BB02ED@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Accessed the c drive on the server, but it would not let us either rename
or
delete the administrator profile under docs and settings. We recieved the
access denied error. Even though the administrator account is not logged
in.
I had received a message from the server before when trying to delete the
administrator profile that said the profile could not be deleted because
the
administrator account is part of the system and required.
"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
think about this before proceeding, and if anyone else has any input
please
feel free to chime in, however I would not expect anything crucial to
operation to be in the admin profile and it does sound as if it is
corrupt.
You can login to a WS with admin credentials, either as the Domain
Administrator, or equivalent admin rights. Start, run, \\server\C$ and
navigate to the admin profile (docs and settings\administrator), delete
it.
If you are running a roaming profile for admin, delete it also and don't
sign off the WS you are using (else the profile, if roaming, will be
written
back to the server).
AGAIN, _THINK_ about this one. My immediate reaction is that nothing
untoward will happen, and that any consequences will be outweighed by
restoration of the admin profile.
"Vortigern Wolf" <Vortigern Wolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
news:B46847D1-EEAA-4912-B2EA-16CD86958338@microsoft.com...
Hi,
Have a Windows 2000 small buisness server and am unable to login
directly
to
it, with the administrator account.
Basically it looks like the desktop is failing to load correctly. It
just
sits at the background screen with no Icons and no start bar.
Although the server is working properly. Its picking up its emails,
dishing
out its files and prints and doing all the things a server should do.
You just cant login with the administrator account. You cant remote
access
the server with the administrator account as well.
But you can access the server with an account that has administrator
rights.
I have been able to get to the event viewer and do not see any untoward
errors when the administrator is loggin in.
If the administrator profile is corrupted you are unable to delete the
profile and re-create it. You can log onto the workstations with the
administrator account.
The server does not seem to want to shutdown correctly as well. You
cannot
shut it down from the administrator account because you cannot access
anything. But if you shut the server down remotly it does not shut
down
and
you have to power it off from the button.
The server has 960 meg of hard drive space avaiable to it on its C:
drive.
I know its low, but would this be causing the problem?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this problem?
Thankyou in advance.
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SuperGumby [SBS MVP]
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Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Cannot login to server with Administrator account. |
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it may be that some service is running as the Administrator, and therefore
activating the profile without the server being logged into.
or I simply may be missing something, sorry, never had to delete my admin
profile.
May be worthwhile setting all unnecessary services to 'disabled' (this can
be done via computer management from another PC) and restarting the box.
Again, I ask you to _think_ about this solution. I'm not sure of the
consequences. I can't think of a reason not to do it, but there's something
niggling at the back of my head. All I can suggest is that if it gives you
the ability to again sign on as admin you will be closer to normal than you
now are.
"Chris" <ChrisSims@schoolofenglishstudies.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23Ib0yFx0FHA.1040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | Before you can "release" the profile you have to reboot the server and
don't log in from the server. Delete the profile from the WS as
recommended.
"Vortigern Wolf" <VortigernWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:5F5F9A87-B3BB-4B90-A750-8C0B15BB02ED@microsoft.com...
Accessed the c drive on the server, but it would not let us either rename
or
delete the administrator profile under docs and settings. We recieved
the
access denied error. Even though the administrator account is not logged
in.
I had received a message from the server before when trying to delete the
administrator profile that said the profile could not be deleted because
the
administrator account is part of the system and required.
"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
think about this before proceeding, and if anyone else has any input
please
feel free to chime in, however I would not expect anything crucial to
operation to be in the admin profile and it does sound as if it is
corrupt.
You can login to a WS with admin credentials, either as the Domain
Administrator, or equivalent admin rights. Start, run, \\server\C$ and
navigate to the admin profile (docs and settings\administrator), delete
it.
If you are running a roaming profile for admin, delete it also and don't
sign off the WS you are using (else the profile, if roaming, will be
written
back to the server).
AGAIN, _THINK_ about this one. My immediate reaction is that nothing
untoward will happen, and that any consequences will be outweighed by
restoration of the admin profile.
"Vortigern Wolf" <Vortigern Wolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
news:B46847D1-EEAA-4912-B2EA-16CD86958338@microsoft.com...
Hi,
Have a Windows 2000 small buisness server and am unable to login
directly
to
it, with the administrator account.
Basically it looks like the desktop is failing to load correctly. It
just
sits at the background screen with no Icons and no start bar.
Although the server is working properly. Its picking up its emails,
dishing
out its files and prints and doing all the things a server should do.
You just cant login with the administrator account. You cant remote
access
the server with the administrator account as well.
But you can access the server with an account that has administrator
rights.
I have been able to get to the event viewer and do not see any
untoward
errors when the administrator is loggin in.
If the administrator profile is corrupted you are unable to delete the
profile and re-create it. You can log onto the workstations with the
administrator account.
The server does not seem to want to shutdown correctly as well. You
cannot
shut it down from the administrator account because you cannot access
anything. But if you shut the server down remotly it does not shut
down
and
you have to power it off from the button.
The server has 960 meg of hard drive space avaiable to it on its C:
drive.
I know its low, but would this be causing the problem?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this problem?
Thankyou in advance.
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Vortigern Wolf
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Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Cannot login to server with Administrator account. |
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Am having problems removing the administrators profile from documents
settings. Tried reboot but still got access denied message.
Any ideas how to remove the profile from the documents settings. Is it
possible to remove the profile, or are we looking at a server rebuild?
Thanks
Vortigern
"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
| Quote: | it may be that some service is running as the Administrator, and therefore
activating the profile without the server being logged into.
or I simply may be missing something, sorry, never had to delete my admin
profile.
May be worthwhile setting all unnecessary services to 'disabled' (this can
be done via computer management from another PC) and restarting the box.
Again, I ask you to _think_ about this solution. I'm not sure of the
consequences. I can't think of a reason not to do it, but there's something
niggling at the back of my head. All I can suggest is that if it gives you
the ability to again sign on as admin you will be closer to normal than you
now are.
"Chris" <ChrisSims@schoolofenglishstudies.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23Ib0yFx0FHA.1040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
Before you can "release" the profile you have to reboot the server and
don't log in from the server. Delete the profile from the WS as
recommended.
"Vortigern Wolf" <VortigernWolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:5F5F9A87-B3BB-4B90-A750-8C0B15BB02ED@microsoft.com...
Accessed the c drive on the server, but it would not let us either rename
or
delete the administrator profile under docs and settings. We recieved
the
access denied error. Even though the administrator account is not logged
in.
I had received a message from the server before when trying to delete the
administrator profile that said the profile could not be deleted because
the
administrator account is part of the system and required.
"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
think about this before proceeding, and if anyone else has any input
please
feel free to chime in, however I would not expect anything crucial to
operation to be in the admin profile and it does sound as if it is
corrupt.
You can login to a WS with admin credentials, either as the Domain
Administrator, or equivalent admin rights. Start, run, \\server\C$ and
navigate to the admin profile (docs and settings\administrator), delete
it.
If you are running a roaming profile for admin, delete it also and don't
sign off the WS you are using (else the profile, if roaming, will be
written
back to the server).
AGAIN, _THINK_ about this one. My immediate reaction is that nothing
untoward will happen, and that any consequences will be outweighed by
restoration of the admin profile.
"Vortigern Wolf" <Vortigern Wolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
news:B46847D1-EEAA-4912-B2EA-16CD86958338@microsoft.com...
Hi,
Have a Windows 2000 small buisness server and am unable to login
directly
to
it, with the administrator account.
Basically it looks like the desktop is failing to load correctly. It
just
sits at the background screen with no Icons and no start bar.
Although the server is working properly. Its picking up its emails,
dishing
out its files and prints and doing all the things a server should do.
You just cant login with the administrator account. You cant remote
access
the server with the administrator account as well.
But you can access the server with an account that has administrator
rights.
I have been able to get to the event viewer and do not see any
untoward
errors when the administrator is loggin in.
If the administrator profile is corrupted you are unable to delete the
profile and re-create it. You can log onto the workstations with the
administrator account.
The server does not seem to want to shutdown correctly as well. You
cannot
shut it down from the administrator account because you cannot access
anything. But if you shut the server down remotly it does not shut
down
and
you have to power it off from the button.
The server has 960 meg of hard drive space avaiable to it on its C:
drive.
I know its low, but would this be causing the problem?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this problem?
Thankyou in advance.
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