Sudden lockout of all accounts

From: Francois Nel (nelfh@telkom.co.za)
Date: 08/30/02


From: "Francois Nel" <nelfh@telkom.co.za>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:56:04 -0700


Hi

This has happened a couple of times after installing
Windows 2000 Professional. I work for a week or two when
the next time I try to connect to the network, the
connection succeeds but no data can be passed through it.
When rebooting the system thereafter, all accounts are
locked out (local policy does not permit interactive
login) and even the administrator accounts fail (This
account has been locked. Contact your administrator). Now
I AM the administrator and I do not know what to do!

The current installation of W2K was purchased 2 weeks ago
and yesterday did the same thing (I thought that the
previous copy may have been faulty???). My supplier is
not aware of this problem.

Regards
Francois



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