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Installing SBS 2011

I am trying to do a clean install of SBS 2011 standard on a brand new server. I specify a Network Administrator user name of NWadmin. When it has completed the install it asks me to login. I attempt to login using NWadmin and the password I set up (using both the form username and domain\username) and it says username/password is incorrect message. I try several times always with the same outcome...

OK I thought maybe I was being exceptionally stupid and did not correctly note down the password (even though at this initial set up it is one of my much loved oft used passwords so mistyping etc is very unlikely) so start again scrub the hard disk and reinstall SBS from scratch.

Exactly the same issue. I have installed loads of copies of SBS back to SBS 2000 so I am not entirely naive about this sort of thing. I cannot believe I have simply mistyped the password both in the main and confirm box TWICE!!! What can I conceivably be doing wrong?

Philip Elder

Use a real name. We use war heroes or book character's names or great author's names for the admin account at client sites. The whole idea is to use a non-descript name for the domain admin account.

Our setup guide:

http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2010/12/sbs-2011-setup-guide-v100.html

Philip

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JohnnyBrav0

Wow - yes. Same thing happened with the Lenovo EasyStart program. I started the install process and plugged in my typical admin pw and let it install over the weekend. I came back in on Monday and entered the machine name, domain name and then Admin acct name and pw... and after it rebooted I though I was crazy - the pw I just typed wouldn't get me in. Well it was the pw used in the EasyStart script from Friday I had forgotten I'd used.

JohnnyBrav0

and the big difference being... when it reboots during setup it only has a pw field for the administrator acct, and you can't change the login name. so you use the original pw once and when it completes it shows the acct to login to as domain\newadminacct - and not administrator. That added to the confusion but should have shed immediate light on it. :-|