Re: The system cannot change your password now...

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

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    From: "Akira Ho" <nospam@nopsam.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:19:49 -0700

    Hi, thanks for helping but seems like this is not the
    source of the problem.

    All client workstations use DHCP so all of them have the
    same settings. i.e. dns & gw pointing to the sbs2000
    server.

    All network services are fine on all machines. They can
    logon to the domain, print to the print server on
    sbs2000, browser Internet through the sbs2000...etc.
    However *only on some computers* a user cannot change
    passwords.

    yes, I've checked the logon_server variable and dns
    settings and they're fine. (btw if these settings are
    wrong I believe the client won't even logon?)

    Any other clues?
    Thanks a lot!
    Akira
    akiraho[at]h@tmail[d@t]c@m

    >-----Original Message-----
    >Some things I would check:
    >
    >Are the clients configured with the proper "Preffered
    DNS server" IP
    >address? It should be the IP address of the DC.
    >
    >Are the clients using your DC as their primary login
    server?
    >Open a command prompt and type "set" The fourth line
    down should be
    >"LOGONSERVER=\\your_DC"
    >
    > -Phil
    >
    >"Akira Ho" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:038601c302f3
    $9be991b0
    >$a401280a@phx.gbl:
    >
    >> 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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