Re: rebooting OK when locked out of computer?

From: iams115 (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:52:17 -0800

I'm not familiar with how to access the administrative
share remotely w/C$. Where can I find directions? And what
does this mean that it was changed remotely? No one should
have remote access.

Thanks!

>-----Original Message-----
>Can you access the administrative share remotely such as
C$ . If you can't then your
>password must have been changed. I have never seen the
lock function "stuck" and with
>the message you are receiving, your password has been
changed particularly with the
>situation you described. The password was probably
changed remotely by someone is my
>guess. Hopefully you have backups and you could try
restoring the System State from a
>time before this happened which will require a password
for that also. You might want
>to email Winternals and ask if their product can work on
your SBS server or if they
>have a special procedure for it, etc. Generally it is
easy to reset passwords on W2K
>computers, but domain controllers are more difficult. See
the link below for
>information.
>
>http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/locks
mith.asp
>
>"iams115" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:a45e01c406c2$abf615f0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a f/u to my post yesterday - I'm still locked
out
>> of our server and need direction re: what to do.
>>
>> As stated, I'm locked out of my server. I can access the
>> server information using the administrator password that
>> I've always used, but it's not letting me back into the
>> server computer itself. It keeps telling me the password
>> is wrong even though I haven't changed it. I've tried
>> upper case, lower case, everything using the password.
>> It's now becoming an emergency since I have a new person
>> starting on Monday and need to get into the server
>> computer to add the user info.
>>
>> Question: Does the lock function sometimes get stuck? It
>> hasn't before, and I've always been able to unlock the
>> computer using this password. I have had 2 things happen
>> recently: 1) my old IT person told me he wasn't making
>> enough $$ on us, so I either needed to pay a yearly
>> contract fee (+$100/hour for any actual work) or use
>> someone else. We have 3 people and don't have that kind
of
>> money, so I went w/someone else. 2) the someone else
came
>> in once. As far as I know, he just disabled the
accounts,
>> which were administrator accounts, for the old IT guy,
and
>> a former employee. Several days later, I realized I
hadn't
>> locked the computer so my employees now can't access,
and
>> once I did, I haven't been able to get back into it.
>>
>> Please help! Can/should I reboot the server since the
>> administrative password works to access folders on the
>> server from other computers? Or will this change any
>> settings that computer guy #2 may have done and
>> permanently lock me out? For the record, computer guy #2
>> says I must have changed the password, which I didn't. I
>> think the fact that I can access the folders on the
server
>> using this same password confirms that, but who
cares...I
>> just need to get back into it!
>>
>> We use Windows 2000 and MS SBS 2000 for the server.
Thanks
>> for any help!!
>>
>> AS
>
>
>.
>

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