Server 2008- "Please wait for the group policy client" Cannot login
I have a windows 2008 Std box at a remote office, I dcpromo the box to add it as a DC for an exisiting forest and everything seemed ok. Rebooted the server and when attempting to login it gives me a incorrect login or password after sitting at the PLEASE WAIT FOR THE GROUP POLICY CLIENT screen for a few minutes.
Trying to login as local admin fails as well.
Ideas? HELP. this worked fine at 4 other remote offices,
Trying to login as local admin fails as well.
Ideas? HELP. this worked fine at 4 other remote offices,
Mike Thomas
Maybe you just neeed to give it some time to bed in and load everything/replicate.
ASKER
Its been 36 hours
Oh then that changes things, have just simply tried to reboot? without being able to log in your options are limited unless you rebuild it.
Does the server list as being a dc in AD, are there correct records for it in DNS etc etc
Does the server list as being a dc in AD, are there correct records for it in DNS etc etc
ASKER
ive rebooted many times, no luck.
AD shows it as a domain controller, DNS looks right i think, thats where I think the problem lies
AD shows it as a domain controller, DNS looks right i think, thats where I think the problem lies
ASKER
in DNS forward lookup zones, it does not show up as a name server entry
Here is a thought, try typing the password into the username field to ensure all the charcater mappings on the keyboard are correct.
ASKER
did that already, its fine.
Have you run dcdiag and looked through the logs on that new DC? Any issues on it?
Thanks
Mike
Thanks
Mike
ASKER
I cannot login to it to run ANYTHING like dcdiag, all login attempts fail.
can you look at the logs from a remote machine
ASKER
Can you tell me how to do it for that machine from another machine? I thought it only worked ON the machine it was on
From the event viewer you can connect to a remote machine (right click and connect to another computer)
Thanks
Mike
Thanks
Mike
ASKER
Just tried that, i get this
Event Viewer cannot connect to computer
NEO-FILESERVEr. The error reported is: The RPC server is unavailable
Event Viewer cannot connect to computer
NEO-FILESERVEr. The error reported is: The RPC server is unavailable
Can you get into DSRM mode?
ASKER
can i use DSRM to get into a remote machine?
I dont see how
I dont see how
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