Re: administrator locked out of SBS 2003

HiJoe,
I hadn't tried remote access prior to post, but it does work thanks.
I had safe mode in mind as a last resort but the box is 60Klm's away.

Cheers

"Joe Smith" wrote:

have you tried logging in remotely? what about safemode?
do you have any other admin accounts set up?
"Cameraella" <Cameraella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think I have managed to lock the administrator out of logging onto our
SBS
03 server.
Whilst installing VMware server 2, the installation kept failing reporting
"System Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation."
....I
was logged on as administrator. To resolve this problem I followed a
suggestion to access the local security policy and amend. As it was an SBS
03
box, I had to create a new blank policy in the Domain controller security
policy, and the change the properties to enforce for all users except
administrators. This then allowed the VMware server installation to
complete.
I have restarted the server numerous times after this installation 2 days
ago. For some reason today when I try to log on to the server as
administrator at the console I now get "The local policy of this system
does
not permit you to log on interactively."

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

PS. I do have a system state backup from before the VMware server upgrade
and any issues were experienced.


Thanks in advance.
Cameron





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