Logon box greyed out

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 03:34:17 -0700

Just another thing... It's now happening to five of my
boxes in total. Four of them are DC's running the usual
assortment (DNS, DHCP, WINS, File and Print) and one is
just a basic build with SQL Server 2000 on it.
Also I'm not sure if this is related, but I rebooted on of
the boxes that wasn't having this problem yet, and it's
taking ages to come up to the Logon screen, it seems to be
hanging at "Applying Computer settings".
I'm just going to build a bog-standard WS2003 box and see
what happens. I'm wondering if this is related to a
Windows Update or something perhaps?
My boxes aren't heavily customised or anything like that,
so I'm not sure where to start looking any further.

Thanks.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi there,
>
>I've got a problem that I've had start to happen on two
of
>my WS2003 boxes. They are both virtually identical build,
>no special policies or changes.. vanilla.
>
>When I press CTRL+ALT+DEL, the logon box appears, but the
>username and password boxes are greyed out. The domain
box
>is still there, and you can select either the current
>domain or blank, fine.
>
>When I use a Remote Desktop Connection to get to the
>server (I normally just use VNC) I get a normal logon
box,
>and am able to logon to the server. It appears just to
>happen when you try to logon interactively.
>I did try rebooting one of the affected servers last
night
>remotely, and then found it hung at the "Applying
Computer
>Settings" section. After a two and half hour drive to the
>site at 11pm, I managed to get it working only by doing a
>safe mode boot and disabling unneccesary services, then
>gradually re-enabling them. As yet I can't find the cause
>of that problem.
>
>I had tried searching newsgroups etc for about two weeks
>before I took the plunge to reboot the first affected
>server, and judging by the problems I had last night, I'd
>rather not do it on the other remote server.
>
>Any other information you want, just shout.
>
>Regards,
>Paul
>.
>

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