Re: Cannot log in locally

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:50:58 GMT

Can you access the computer remotely to view the Event Log and file
permissions through the admin share/Computer Management - other computer or
such? Maybe something happened to file permissions. You would want to check
the root folder, documents and settings folder, and system folder all of
which should have full control for administrators and system and
read/list/execute for users. Also check for any deny permissions that can be
causing problems. Keep in mind that administrators are also members of
everyone and users group. If you can boot into Recovery Console [probably
not if you do not have it installed already] be sure to try that and run
Check Disk to see if there is any file/folder corruption it may be able to
fix. --- Steve

"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
>
>