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 11:49:42 GMT
Have you checked event viewer on the DC and the clients?
"Akira Ho" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news:045301c30318$781730b0
$a401280a@phx.gbl:
> 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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