Re: can not login

From: Tim Morgan (tmorgan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:23:42 -0600

Found a strange work around that is particularly ugly.

If I set the user up as an Administrator rather than a Contributor then they
are able to log in!

Any ideas?

"Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uHpSN6B9EHA.1300@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> The only cases I\ve had recently where users who have been able to access
> can\t are
>
> a) they got a new machine and the login was assuming
> Name=machinename(backslash)username rather than
> domainname(backslash)username
>
> (having problems with my keyboard which has switched to US after I clicked
> something by mistake!)
>
> b) something in the link between their network and the one where the WSS
> server is changed and their machine is now saying
> Name=otherdomain(backslash)username even though they have changed nothing
> themselves.
>
> This second was for users local to the server only though.
>
> In both cases getting them to delete machinename/otherdomain and replace
> it
> with their usual domainname cleared the problem.
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>
> "Tim Morgan" <tmorgan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:#Vi7KEB9EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> I have a user with the same problem.
>>
>> She is a domain user, that has previously been able to login to WSS.
> Nothing
>> in her environment (i.e. browser) has changed. The only thing that has
>> recently changed is that the domain password expiration date was up and
> all
>> domain users were required to change passwords.
>>
>> I have tried to delete her account from the site administration and from
> the
>> WSS admin screen. Also tried the last resort of rebooting.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> "Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:uruwie08EHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> > So his name/password combination are OK.
>> >
>> > The obvious one first. Did you actually see him try to log in ? Was his
>> > Caps
>> > Lock off ? and are you sure he wrote the correct password ?
>> >
>> > Then another possibility (if he's using a local name not a domain name
> to
>> > log in). When he tries to login on his machine can you be sure that his
>> > Domain is not pre-set. If there's a visible field for Domain make sure
>> > it's
>> > blank; if not get him to login with servername\username + password.
>> >
>> > Is he running the same browser and version as you on the same Operating
>> > System?
>> >
>> > Anything else you can tell us ? (let us know if he's a domain user or
>> > local
>> > user at least)
>> >
>> > Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>> > WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
>> > Please post questions to the newsgroup only.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:6EE62493-71FE-4C5F-AD57-E71CFDCDE76F@microsoft.com...
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have a user which can not login to SharePoint 2003. The login screen
>> > keep
>> >> poping up. I used his login info and I can login without any problem.
>> >> What
>> >> might be the issue and how can I solve it?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Bob
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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