Re: Cannot login to server with Administrator account.

Before you can "release" the profile you have to reboot the server and don't
log in from the server. Delete the profile from the WS as recommended.



"Vortigern Wolf" <VortigernWolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Accessed the c drive on the server, but it would not let us either rename
> or
> delete the administrator profile under docs and settings. We recieved the
> access denied error. Even though the administrator account is not logged
> in.
>
> I had received a message from the server before when trying to delete the
> administrator profile that said the profile could not be deleted because
> the
> administrator account is part of the system and required.
>
> "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> 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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