Re: The system cannot change your password now...
From: Phil (pmarg@SPAMACIDE.bellsouth.net)
Date: 04/15/03
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From: Phil <pmarg@SPAMACIDE.bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:48:46 GMT
In 2000 they will logon using their cached credentials even with no
domain controller. However, there will be a long delay while the client
searches for a logon server.
"Akira Ho" <nospam@nopsam.com> wrote in news:034201c30306$410d65b0
$a601280a@phx.gbl:
> 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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