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Windows 2k Pro GPO's

I've recently set some GPO's on a Win2k Pro box while logged in with an acct that has admin rights. One thing I did was to enable renaming of the Admin acct. Somewhere along the way, the admin acct now has a username of "Enabled". Now I can't view the Local Security Policy in the MMC anymore. Nor can i log in as "Enabled". I can't even view the properties of my own acct in the Users/Groups MMC. Is there a way to set all the security policies back to default?
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JamesDS

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lesgetdown

Here's another little trick that can be applied as well
Create a boot disk and then boot to this disk for the capability of being able to change the local administrator or other user passwords.

Check out this site for info how:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

les

JamesDS

certainly this is worth a try and WAY less destructive than killing the SAM file, but I'm not sure the password is the issue here. I think the system is just not happy with having an admin account called "enabled"

JamesDS

NYOMSF1

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Thanks!
I can access the GP MMC from my XP box. Both standalone, but still don't have access to view 'the template' when trying to open the

JamesDS

erm, where's the rest of the question!

JamesDS

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