[OT] Can't Log a PC on the the network

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THANK YOU! That worked. Mostly.
- Disconnected cable.
- Logged in as Administrator (yes he did have it with a password I knew)
- Network conneciton was broken but it DID log in!
- Reconnected cable and joined PC to domain (using Wizard method)
- Rebooted...while booting went to server ans re-set password there
- Logged him in with his new password....YES, the boss can work again!

Then when he tries to change password to something I don't know....it refuses saying it does not comply with rules (8 char, 3 of upper/lower/number/special, not one of last 10, not par tof account name, etc...). After trying 15 times it dawns on me...one more rule, can't change password twice in one day...24hr wait period. So we will try password change tomorrow.

Not sure what goofed him up to start but at least he is in business. Thanks again.
-Todd C.


-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Gerard Wadman
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:04 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Can't Log a PC on the the network



Try this;

Disconnect the network cable and try logging into the domain.

If the Trust is broken, the domain would be unable to write the new
password to the workstation's user profile so use the password he was
using on Friday.

You may receive some offline error or no domain pop ups, just click
through them.

Once logged in use computer management to join a "workgroup", then
rename the computer.

Go into user management and set the local admin account password.

Power down the PC.

Reconnect the network cable and login to the local machine on the admin
account.

Open computer management and rejoin the domain.

Good Luck

Cheers,

Gerard M Wadman

Sr. Network Systems Engineer

Scandius BioMedical Inc.

11A Beaver Brook Road

Littleton, MA 01460

978/486-4088 x 124

978/486-4108 (fax)

http://www.scandius <http://www.scandius.com/> .com/

________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com [mailto: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:32 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Can't Log a PC on the the network

I am having a significant and urgent issue logging our President's PC on
to the network. He changed is password on Friday because it had expired
and was able to use it then...but can't log in today. I can't log into
an Administrative account, even locally, either. I think we may have set
his local account as the only administrator due to data sensitivity
issues in his special case. He is very concerned about restricting
access to his PC.

It is a really odd situation I have never seen before...
I can go to server and change his password there and set it to require a
new on upon login. Then I can log in with the new password and get the
"must change password" screen and set a new one but get the message....
"You do not have permission to change password". If I change password on
server and NOT set to require a new one I get the following message:

------------------
"The system could not log you on to this domain because the system's
computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on
that account is incorrect."
-----------------

I have verified that the "Computer" is listed in the Computers for the
domain and looks OK. By virtue of the "must change password" message I
know I am talking to the server and NIC, etc... is OK. Server is Windows
2003 Server....PC is Windows 2000 Pro.

One other odd thing.....PC will not go to Windows boot menu to allow
booting in safe mode. Just plain ignores F8 (and I tried a differnt
keyboard too).

Any hints, clues , ideas or best of all solutions? #1 issue I think
would be why the "no permission to change password" is coming up on the
requires password change. Where's that coming from?

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.

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I am having a significant and urgent issue logging our President's PC on to the network. He changed is password on Friday because it had expired and was able to use it then...but can't log in today. I can't log into an Administrative account, even locally, either. I think we may have set his local account as the only administrator due to data sensitivity issues in his special case. He is very concerned about restricting access to his PC.

It is a really odd situation I have never seen before...
I can go to server and change his password there and set it to require a new on upon login. Then I can log in with the new password and get the "must change password" screen and set a new one but get the message.... "You do not have permission to change password". If I change password on server and NOT set to require a new one I get the following message:

------------------
"The system could not log you on to this domain because the system's computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account is incorrect."
-----------------

I have verified that the "Computer" is listed in the Computers for the domain and looks OK. By virtue of the "must change password" message I know I am talking to the server and NIC, etc... is OK. Server is Windows 2003 Server....PC is Windows 2000 Pro.

One other odd thing.....PC will not go to Windows boot menu to allow booting in safe mode. Just plain ignores F8 (and I tried a differnt keyboard too).

Any hints, clues , ideas or best of all solutions? #1 issue I think would be why the "no permission to change password" is coming up on the requires password change. Where's that coming from?

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.






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Todd,



I had a similar issue last week, where I couldn't log on to the network
as it couldn't find the domain computer account even though it was
there. I went into system properties/computer name and used the Network
Identification Wizard to point the machine to the computer account in
AD. It worked. Once it is aware of the domain you should be able to log
in with Domain Admin account.



Todd



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:32 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Can't Log a PC on the the network



I am having a significant and urgent issue logging our President's PC on
to the network. He changed is password on Friday because it had expired
and was able to use it then...but can't log in today. I can't log into
an Administrative account, even locally, either. I think we may have set
his local account as the only administrator due to data sensitivity
issues in his special case. He is very concerned about restricting
access to his PC.

It is a really odd situation I have never seen before...
I can go to server and change his password there and set it to require a
new on upon login. Then I can log in with the new password and get the
"must change password" screen and set a new one but get the message....
"You do not have permission to change password". If I change password on
server and NOT set to require a new one I get the following message:

------------------
"The system could not log you on to this domain because the system's
computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on
that account is incorrect."
-----------------

I have verified that the "Computer" is listed in the Computers for the
domain and looks OK. By virtue of the "must change password" message I
know I am talking to the server and NIC, etc... is OK. Server is Windows
2003 Server....PC is Windows 2000 Pro.

One other odd thing.....PC will not go to Windows boot menu to allow
booting in safe mode. Just plain ignores F8 (and I tried a differnt
keyboard too).

Any hints, clues , ideas or best of all solutions? #1 issue I think
would be why the "no permission to change password" is coming up on the
requires password change. Where's that coming from?

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.





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Sounds like a trust relationship issue between his PC and the login
domain.





Gerard M Wadman

Sr. Network Systems Engineer



Scandius BioMedical Inc.

11A Beaver Brook Road

Littleton, MA 01460



978/486-4088 x 124

978/486-4108 (fax)



http://www.scandius.com/





________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:32 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Can't Log a PC on the the network



I am having a significant and urgent issue logging our President's PC on
to the network. He changed is password on Friday because it had expired
and was able to use it then...but can't log in today. I can't log into
an Administrative account, even locally, either. I think we may have set
his local account as the only administrator due to data sensitivity
issues in his special case. He is very concerned about restricting
access to his PC.

It is a really odd situation I have never seen before...
I can go to server and change his password there and set it to require a
new on upon login. Then I can log in with the new password and get the
"must change password" screen and set a new one but get the message....
"You do not have permission to change password". If I change password on
server and NOT set to require a new one I get the following message:

------------------
"The system could not log you on to this domain because the system's
computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on
that account is incorrect."
-----------------

I have verified that the "Computer" is listed in the Computers for the
domain and looks OK. By virtue of the "must change password" message I
know I am talking to the server and NIC, etc... is OK. Server is Windows
2003 Server....PC is Windows 2000 Pro.

One other odd thing.....PC will not go to Windows boot menu to allow
booting in safe mode. Just plain ignores F8 (and I tried a differnt
keyboard too).

Any hints, clues , ideas or best of all solutions? #1 issue I think
would be why the "no permission to change password" is coming up on the
requires password change. Where's that coming from?

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.





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Try this;



Disconnect the network cable and try logging into the domain.

If the Trust is broken, the domain would be unable to write the new
password to the workstation's user profile so use the password he was
using on Friday.

You may receive some offline error or no domain pop ups, just click
through them.

Once logged in use computer management to join a "workgroup", then
rename the computer.

Go into user management and set the local admin account password.

Power down the PC.

Reconnect the network cable and login to the local machine on the admin
account.

Open computer management and rejoin the domain.



Good Luck

Cheers,



Gerard M Wadman

Sr. Network Systems Engineer



Scandius BioMedical Inc.

11A Beaver Brook Road

Littleton, MA 01460



978/486-4088 x 124

978/486-4108 (fax)



http://www.scandius.com/





________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:32 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Can't Log a PC on the the network



I am having a significant and urgent issue logging our President's PC on
to the network. He changed is password on Friday because it had expired
and was able to use it then...but can't log in today. I can't log into
an Administrative account, even locally, either. I think we may have set
his local account as the only administrator due to data sensitivity
issues in his special case. He is very concerned about restricting
access to his PC.

It is a really odd situation I have never seen before...
I can go to server and change his password there and set it to require a
new on upon login. Then I can log in with the new password and get the
"must change password" screen and set a new one but get the message....
"You do not have permission to change password". If I change password on
server and NOT set to require a new one I get the following message:

------------------
"The system could not log you on to this domain because the system's
computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on
that account is incorrect."
-----------------

I have verified that the "Computer" is listed in the Computers for the
domain and looks OK. By virtue of the "must change password" message I
know I am talking to the server and NIC, etc... is OK. Server is Windows
2003 Server....PC is Windows 2000 Pro.

One other odd thing.....PC will not go to Windows boot menu to allow
booting in safe mode. Just plain ignores F8 (and I tried a differnt
keyboard too).

Any hints, clues , ideas or best of all solutions? #1 issue I think
would be why the "no permission to change password" is coming up on the
requires password change. Where's that coming from?

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.





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