The system cannot change your password now...

From: Akira Ho (nospam@nospam.com)
Date: 04/15/03 

From: "Akira Ho" <nospam@nospam.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:06:21 -0700

Dear professionals,

I got a sick problem with my Small Business Server 2000.
We have a bunch of Windows XP Prof. workstations.

>From some of the workstations, whenever a user tries to
change password, after typing in the current and new
passwords, the workstation pops up this:
"The system cannot change your password now because the
domain XYZ is not available."

1. the same user account can change password on some
workstations but not others.
2. on a machine that has such problem, I tried removed
the machine from the domain, then re-join it into the
domain. the problem persists.
3. I've searched through the web and saw 1 or 2 cases
similar to mine but still no solution's found.

Can someone give me some clues?

Thanks a lot!!
Akira
akiraho[at]h@tm@il[d@t]com

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