Users Cannot log into W2K Domain
Hi All-
I have found today that users recently added to my W2K domain cannot log in to the domain from any workstation. All workstations are W2K Pro. All the basics check out. I can log into the domain from the same workstation with accounts created before yesterday. The logon info is being entered correctly. The user account is in the ADUC, and has been there overnight. I have set and reset the passwords to make sure they're right. Other new accounts created have the same result: you get the screen that tells you that you can’t be logged in because your username and password are incorrect, check your caps lock…yada yada. I have checked all of the brain-fade stuff (logging in to the proper domain, correct username spelling, etc.) and the W2K server simply will not authorize them. Anyone else run into this?
Thanks-
I have found today that users recently added to my W2K domain cannot log in to the domain from any workstation. All workstations are W2K Pro. All the basics check out. I can log into the domain from the same workstation with accounts created before yesterday. The logon info is being entered correctly. The user account is in the ADUC, and has been there overnight. I have set and reset the passwords to make sure they're right. Other new accounts created have the same result: you get the screen that tells you that you can’t be logged in because your username and password are incorrect, check your caps lock…yada yada. I have checked all of the brain-fade stuff (logging in to the proper domain, correct username spelling, etc.) and the W2K server simply will not authorize them. Anyone else run into this?
Thanks-
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It gets weirder. I had tried to log in with new user accounts from several workstation, no luck. I restarted the services on the W2K server, ditto. Then I got the idea to restart the workstations I was trying to log in to and TADA! I was able to log in with the new accounts. This seems weird to me because you could log in with accounts created before 3-4-03 from those same workstations. There have been no changes to the authentication or name resolution structure of our domain, so why the workstations would need a reboot escapes me, but it worked.
To answer Kris- no- the accounts do not immediately show up on our WAN-connected W2K server. It has always lagged a bit, but it’s been a couple of hours since I re-created the account this morning and it should be there now but it isn’t. We are in mixed-mode, and as far the PDC emulator it appears to be OK since I can transfer that operation to another DC from the FSMO.
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To answer Kris- no- the accounts do not immediately show up on our WAN-connected W2K server. It has always lagged a bit, but it’s been a couple of hours since I re-created the account this morning and it should be there now but it isn’t. We are in mixed-mode, and as far the PDC emulator it appears to be OK since I can transfer that operation to another DC from the FSMO.
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what, you mean you didn't try a reboot first? ;)
glad you fixed it.
glad you fixed it.
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It gets weirder. I had tried to log in with new user accounts from several workstation, no luck. I restarted the services on the W2K server, ditto. Then I got the idea to restart the workstations I was trying to log in to and TADA! I was able to log in with the new accounts. This seems weird to me because you could log in with accounts created before 3-4-03 from those same workstations. There have been no changes to the authentication or name resolution structure of our domain, so why the workstations would need a reboot escapes me, but it worked.
To answer Kris- no- the accounts do not immediately show up on our WAN-connected W2K server. It has always lagged a bit, but it’s been a couple of hours since I re-created the account this morning and it should be there now but it isn’t. We are in mixed-mode, and as far the PDC emulator it appears to be OK since I can transfer that operation to another DC from the FSMO.
Thanks
To answer Kris- no- the accounts do not immediately show up on our WAN-connected W2K server. It has always lagged a bit, but it’s been a couple of hours since I re-created the account this morning and it should be there now but it isn’t. We are in mixed-mode, and as far the PDC emulator it appears to be OK since I can transfer that operation to another DC from the FSMO.
Thanks
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