Re: Administrator can't log in locally

Nope, nothing at all to do with a patch or update [and why does everyone assume this?]

Log in remotely and check the memberships of the Admin.

My guess is that you've stuck in there a member of the power users group

Review the group memberships of the Administrator account. Click on Start, Server Management, Users, click on Administrator and review the “members of” tab. By default, the administrator account should only have memberships in the following groups:

  1. Administrators
  2. Domain Admins
  3. Domain Users
  4. Enterprise Admins
  5. Group Policy Creator Owners
  6. Mobile Users
  7. Schema Adminis
  8. And possibly Internet users [if ISA 2000 is installed]
  9. You should NOT have membership in Power Users.



rg wrote:

Howdy!

I have an SBS2003 installation that is used only remotely. It has run without a monitor or keyboard for almost two years. Patches are applied and management is done via TS.

Now the network is broken and we need access to the server. We plugged in the keyboard and monitor and try logging in locally - AND CAN'T!!!

It says the local policy prohibits interactive local login. We are using the administrator account that was used to install SBS in the first place! We even tried using the server name instead of the domain name. All to no avail!

So, any idea why this happened? Was there a service pack or other update that took the local administrator account out of the local login policy?

Thanks!




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