Re: No admin login

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Thanks for the replies!

Keyboard and regional settings are correct for my location. Tried with 2
know good keyboards.
The account I'm using is the built in administrator account. I've checked
it's membership and it is a member of the right groups, (administrators,
domain admins, enterprise admins, remote desktop users, group policy creator
owners, schema admins, domain users)
There is no group policy set on the machine other than the 2 default domain
ones created by the OS on install. I can see that MS has set some
restrictions by default, (password length, complexity etc) but there is
nothing set to stop the administrator account logging on locally.
As a test I disabled these policies but I still can't log on locally!

I'm really stumped by this! I thought I knew most of the dirty little
secrets that Windows could use to pull the rug from under your feet but I
guess not!


"Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Testing a copy of Server 2008 Std...

If I go to the machine and try to login I get "The username or password
is incorrect"
If I use EXACTLY the same username and password in a remote desktop
session, I can log in.

The login I'm trying is the administrator account, I can see that this is
a member of all the right security groups, what the hell is going on?


It's also possible a policy denies logging on locally. On servers this
right is restricted to members of domain groups Administrators, Account
Operators, Backup Operators, Print Operators, and Server Operators. Are
you logging into the domain with an account that is a member of the domain
group Administrators or Domain Admins?

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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