Re: Cannot log in locally

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 23:06:07 -0700

I hope you have had a great Xmas too Steve, and yes,
I have had some family time . . .

As he did (does?) have the disk hung off of a bootable
system I cannot believe I had not though to mention
opening the event logs to see what was there !!! Doh! 

-- 
Roger
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:4y%yd.807212$8_6.135809@attbi_s04...
> Interesting. I don't think I have ever had a problem with corrupt default
> user profile and the resulting symptoms/cure [other than restore it from
> backup]. Hopefully if he can get a look in Event Viewer he will get more
> helpful info. Not being able to boot from the cdrom makes it rough and
makes
> me wonder what is up with that. By the way Merry Christmas Uncle Rog! I
> don't know if you celebrate or what, but enjoy the weekend either
ay.  --- 
> Steve
>
>
> "Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:eO$VOSf6EHA.1596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >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
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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