Re: Cannot log in locally

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:34:35 -0700

When you had the disk attached to the other system did you
scan it for virii and other malware ?
When the disk was booted did you try use of last known good
boot ? (note: this will likely reverse the software update that
you mentioned having applied) 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Buttnuts" <leaderbuilder@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1103759557.321061.180760@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> 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
> > >
> > >
>