Re: Logon fails, kind of

From: Keith (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:46:07 -0800

Fair point and sorry to mislead. I logon to a local
machine so I don't think it is a networking issue.
Because the OS keeps taking me back to the logon screen
then I can't do any real diagnosis in order to provide
more information.
>-----Original Message-----
>You don't logon to a workgroup - only a domain or local
machine, though you can
>authenticate against a workgroup machine. Maybe if you
give a little more detail
>in exactly what the problem is, we can help. Always try
to ping a machine by ip
>address and name that you are trying to access to
determine network
>connectivity. Often running netdiag can help resolve
networking issues by
>running a battery of tests and reporting a pass or fail.
Client for Microsoft
>networks also needs to be installed and enabled to access
any network
>esources. --- Steve
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%
3B321708
>
>"Keith" <m185945@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:36e401c3e22d$d31ee990$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> I can no longer log onto my workgroup-only workstation
>> with either the Administrator account or my Local
account
>> with admin privileges. However, I do not receive an
>> error message. As a matter of fact, if I purposefully
>> enter the incorrect password I receive the
>> typical "incorrect password" error message, but if I
>> enter the correct password then for a split second I see
>> the message "loading your personal settings" then it
>> returns to the logon screen in a nanosecond. Identical
>> results with Administrator ID and password. I used ERD
>> commander to view the System Event log and discovered
>> messages that might be clues to someone smarter than I.
>> There was one event about COM+ Event System failed to
>> start... and another about DCOM got error "2%"
attempting
>> to start the service EventSystem... I tried Safe Mode
>> with the same results and I tried Last Known Good
>> Configuration with the same results. I checked the MS
KB
>> but this appears to be a first because there were no
>> matches. Anybody know what I can do to get logged in?
>>
>
>
>.
>

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