cant get local security - error opening database

From: James W. Long (JamesLong_at_wowway.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:38:53 -0400

Hi all,

When I try to look at local security settings -> local policies -> audit
policy,
local security settings -> local policies -> user rights, and
local security settings -> local policies -> security options
on my client machine, which is a mameber oy my domain, it now says:

Windows cannot open the local policy database.
An unknown error occured when attempting to open the database

Its also true if I log on as the administrator of the local machine.
I cant see those 3.

And the worst part,

My other users cant logon to the machine anymore,
they are immediately logged off now!
They do have the right (authenticated users do) to log on locally.

only The administrator can log on and not get booted off again.

something changed, dont know what.

how do I fix it? what happened?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

  James W Long.

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