Re: Locked out of Win2k Server

From: Don Wilwol (wilwol_at_capital.net)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:32:20 -0500

It sounds like you inadvertently set the policy on the default domain
policy, or you linked it to the domain and not the OU.

Maybe somebody else has a magic cure. I don't think there is an easy fix.

dw 

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"[-=Dan=-]" <getbent@ease.com> wrote in message 
news:3746bpF59esocU1@individual.net...
> "Don Wilwol" <wilwol@capital.net> wrote in message 
> news:OWd$WTEEFHA.1496@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> I'm not sure I fully understand. You can not log onto the domain from 
>> anywhere, or just from the one server. If you can get to the policy, you 
>> should be able to undo your mistake. If you can log on from anywhere, I 
>> had a colleague that had a customer do the same thing. I found this hack 
>> for him. We never got to try it, they wound up restoring AD from backup, 
>> but if its the last hope!
>> http://www.commodore.ca/windows/undo_group_policy.htm
>>
>>
>> good luck
>>
>> dw
>>
> The strangest thing. I just rebuilt the member server, did all the windows 
> updates, installed AVG software. Runs ok. As soon as I join it onto the 
> domain, when I reboot I cannot log into the domain, or locally. Get the 
> same message. How can a user policy that I applied to an OU that contains 
> one user, be applied to this server? I'm well stumped. I don't want to 
> rebuild both servers....
>
> Any thoughts *GREATLY* appreciated...
>
> Dan
>

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