"The system could not log you on. Make sure you User name and domain are correct, then type your password again. Letters in passwords must be typed using the correct case. Make sure that Caps Lock is not accidentally on"

And nothing I type in will fix the problem. Solutions?

(1) Make sure it's the right username
(2) Try logging in as administrator
(3) Doesn't l0pht crack work against 2k?
(4) Did you make the Emergency Repair Disks when you installed? Use them and restore the default registry.

That's about all I can think of short of abusing Lyinar's PC to nuke the WinNT dir and reloading Win2k....

Well, not completely all, but the other utils that would help in this situation start at about $500 and go up from there....

So we're trying to log him in with no password and it's saying it can't log in.

[ 06-23-2003: Message edited by: Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael ]

I have a util at work that we spent something like $2500 on that's supposed to nuke the Admin password back to '12345', but I've never had to use it yet....

If you have no other accounts capable of user administration you are for the most part out of luck.

Lyinar, you should make a linked account called "Ja'Deth & Friends", or "Lyinar's Panda", or something along those lines, for when 'Deth pops over your place.

[EDIT] Grammar is good?

[ 06-24-2003: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ]

Did you make the PC join a Workgroup or a Domain?

Did you make sure that Deth was attempting to log back into the local PC vs the Workgroup/Domain?

We tried to repair, Doc, but that didn't work. So we had to reinstall. But at least we didn't have to wipe completely and format, just reinstall the Windows components.

I suggested to him that he partition some of his drive just for Win2k, but he doesn't want to do that. He is going to set up a User for himself rather than always using the Administrator, though. So hopefully this won't be an issue again. He thinks something he DLed when he was here Sunday night (he was downloading anime videos off Kazaalite) geeked up his Admin password stuff, because it had never asked him to log into windows before.

Clicking the Option button didn't do jack. It only gave us the option of whether we wanted to dial out or not. That's what makes me think that I got a particularly nasty little bug that diddled my settings. Most annoying...

...On the upside, though, when we reinstalled 2k, it didn't delete any of my personal files (saved games, MP3's that happened to be on the C drive, etc). Lost the registry keys to my games, etc (so I'll have to reinstall my games, but the saved game files are secure for things like Diablo 2, etc) so it could have been a lot worse. It was an annoying lesson to have to learn (setting up sub-accounts to the admin), but at least it wasn't THAT bad a lesson.

I can't remember if workgroup info shows up there or not... I haven't bothered with 2k in a workgroup environment...