Re: Cannot log in locally

From: Buttnuts (leaderbuilder_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: 22 Dec 2004 15:52:37 -0800

I cannot login at all. after first try we get an error that says it
must log in locally then I get an error that it could not create
temporary profile. I have three admin user accounts and none of them
work. same thing happens.
There are no login scripts either, no need to connect to domain or
shared resources as there really arent any other than a mapped data
drive to our storage server.

Roger Abell wrote:
> You say the message was that you could _only_ log in locally?
> That is a new one on me!! Perhaps it was a message that you
> could only log in with a local, temporary profile?
>
> Evidently you did not have multiple accounts to try.
> When you have a login process start, but then before getting
> the desktop you are dumped back at the login screen, this is
> often a failure of something that is configured to run at login
> (like the login script). You could try replacing the login
> script file with something that is guaranteed to work fine,
> if your accounts are configured to use one that is. Also,
> think over what things are set to run at login for all accounts
> (assuming that it was creating a new temporary profile, and
> failed to log in with it). Perhaps one of these items has
> failed ungracefully.
> Normally, I would suggest renaming the profile folder of
> the account while you have the disk accessible from another
> boot, as this will then force creation of a new profile for the
> account at next login - however, it sounds like it was not able
> to create a new temp profile so this is likely to be fruitless.
>
> --
> Roger Abell
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
> MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> "ButtNut" <sltviewNO@SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Bglyd.1817$wZ2.224@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> > Please Help if you can,
> >
> > we have a win2k sp4 750mb ram 40G hdd adv srvr [work group not a
DC] that
> > was running well until yesterday. did a software update that
required a
> > reboot and now we cannot log in. get a message profile cannot be
created
> > and that we can only log in locally, log in process starts then
closes and
> > end up back at the log in window. Also the system wll not boot from
the
> > CDROM drive even after making sure the bios is set correctly.
because of
> > this we can't use the winternals ERD or the EBCD recovery tools to
get in.
> > we placed the disk in another machine and at least we copied most
of the
> > data off. But it would sure suck to have to re-intsall the OS and
ALL of
> the
> > programs.
> > Any suggestions?
> > Please post answers here.
> > Thank you
> >
> >