Re: Cannot login to server with Administrator account.

think about this before proceeding, and if anyone else has any input please
feel free to chime in, however I would not expect anything crucial to
operation to be in the admin profile and it does sound as if it is corrupt.

You can login to a WS with admin credentials, either as the Domain
Administrator, or equivalent admin rights. Start, run, \\server\C$ and
navigate to the admin profile (docs and settings\administrator), delete it.
If you are running a roaming profile for admin, delete it also and don't
sign off the WS you are using (else the profile, if roaming, will be written
back to the server).

AGAIN, _THINK_ about this one. My immediate reaction is that nothing
untoward will happen, and that any consequences will be outweighed by
restoration of the admin profile.

"Vortigern Wolf" <Vortigern Wolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B46847D1-EEAA-4912-B2EA-16CD86958338@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> Have a Windows 2000 small buisness server and am unable to login directly
> to
> it, with the administrator account.
>
> Basically it looks like the desktop is failing to load correctly. It just
> sits at the background screen with no Icons and no start bar.
>
> Although the server is working properly. Its picking up its emails,
> dishing
> out its files and prints and doing all the things a server should do.
>
> You just cant login with the administrator account. You cant remote
> access
> the server with the administrator account as well.
>
> But you can access the server with an account that has administrator
> rights.
>
> I have been able to get to the event viewer and do not see any untoward
> errors when the administrator is loggin in.
>
> If the administrator profile is corrupted you are unable to delete the
> profile and re-create it. You can log onto the workstations with the
> administrator account.
>
> The server does not seem to want to shutdown correctly as well. You
> cannot
> shut it down from the administrator account because you cannot access
> anything. But if you shut the server down remotly it does not shut down
> and
> you have to power it off from the button.
>
> The server has 960 meg of hard drive space avaiable to it on its C: drive.
> I know its low, but would this be causing the problem?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this problem?
>
> Thankyou in advance.
>


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