Re: 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 23:30:12 -0700

Hi,

Yes I did come across that kb article but they talked
about account lockout situations. This is not my case.

My user accounts are not locked out, and we have not set
the "change password at next logon" flag.

And I'm sure the workstations can locate the domain
controller (sbs2000) 'coz I've tried remove the re-join
the computer in the domain. Everything's perfectly fine
but there're just some workstations where any user cannot
change the password.

Thanks for your advice, but I still see no hope...

Rgds,
Akira
akiraho[at]h@tmail[d@t]c@m

>-----Original Message-----
>During your web search did you run across this:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;324141
>If his is your issue, you can call Microsoft for the fix
at no charge.
>
> -Phil
>
>
>"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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