Re: Cannot log in locally

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:12:56 -0700

I am wondering if ntuser.dat (or other parts of) in the
Documents and Settings\Default User profile got wiped.
Let's see . . . system boots but cannot create a usable
temporary profile . . . (and existing account profiles
are not usable) Hmmm explorer hooked in some way
so that userinit cannot fire up the shell ? . . . 

-- 
Roger
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:Cq_yd.706015$mD.499909@attbi_s02...
> Can you access the computer remotely to view the Event Log and file
> permissions through the admin share/Computer Management - other computer
or
> such? Maybe something happened to file permissions. You would want to
check
> the root folder, documents and settings folder, and system folder all of
> which should have full control for administrators and system and
> read/list/execute for users. Also check for any deny permissions that can
be
> causing problems. Keep in mind that administrators are also members of
> everyone and users group. If you can boot into Recovery Console [probably
> not if you do not have it installed already] be sure to try that and run
> Check Disk to see if there is any file/folder corruption it may be able to
> fix.  --- Steve
>
>
> "ButtNut" <sltviewNO@SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Bglyd.1817$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
> >
> >
>
>