Re: Scheduled tasks "Could not start"
- From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 15:05:33 -0500
My guess is that the username/password for that account became corrupted in
protected storage and that changing it fixed the problem. The password for
that account obviously was not changed in the local sam since you could
still logon to the computer with that logon/password. --- Steve
"querylous" <querylous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C1081BBC-3497-46A1-B69E-20A0CC04380E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We have several (20 or so) scheduled tasks which run windows scripts (.js
and
.wsf) which have been running reliably for years on W2K server, well
protected i.e. viruses very unlikely. They run under various logins, all
of
which are members of administrators group. This AM, all the ones running
under "Administrator" username [that's right, THE Administrator], showed
"Could not start". Sched Task logs showed invalid username or pw (we did
not
change anything about the Administrator account and in fact continued to
login in with the Administrator username and pw from terminal services).
When
we first noticed the problem, we restarted the server but the error
recurred.
But, the other scheduled tasks under other logins continued to run without
difficulty! If we tried to run the tasks manually (from scheduled tasks),
they could not start. BUT- when we reset the password on just ONE of these
tasks (to the same password), it started working- along with all the other
tasks (i.e. we updated only one task with the SAME password, and they ALL
started working!)! What could POSSIBLY cause this? There are no errors in
the
event logs other than the failed login attempts from the scheduled tasks
[so
the error was definitely bad username or pw].
I did last PM run a script from csript from the command line, but, did not
for example make cscript the default host. I do not think this could
possibly
be related, but, it's the only unusual thing done on this server since
last
PM.
This is of course concerning,
Thanks for any ideas,
Chris
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