Error: "Local Policy Does Not Permit You to Log On Interactively"

[Teresa]

Ok, I tried looking at previous posts, but they are no
help, as well as the Microsoft Knowledge Pages. This is a
personal computer, which as soon as its loaded up, it
requires a user to login. The login dialog says "Local
Policy Does Not Permit You to Log On Interactively" no
matter what password you put in, and there is only 1
account on this computer.

The Microsoft Knowledge Pages were no help because we
can't get to the Start menu - you have to log in to even
get to the desktop, and the Knowledge pages require being
able to get to the Start menu. And the previous posts
were with computers on networks, and this computer isn't
on one.

Any help would be massively appreciated - please email or
post.
Teresa

 

[Marina Roos]

Have you tried loggin in with the Administrators account?
Marina

 

[Steven L Umbach]

That is very difficult problem to fix on a computer that is not on a network. If you
are not using ntfs, you could try booting to a floppy and then try renaming the
secedit.sdb file and just maybe it will work. If you can put the hard drive in
another computer running W2K or XP, you could try the same thing. Otherwise you are
going to need to reinstall your W2K operating system. You can boot from the install
cdrom to do this. Just be sure to not format anything and install into the existing
winnt folder - you will be prompted to use L to do this. By reinstalling this way,
you should preserve your data files if they are not EFS encrypted - you will have to
search for your My Documents folder in your old profile, because a new one will be
created. You will have to reinstall all of your applications on top of themselves
however. --- Steve

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBG/TIP3300/rh3361.htm -- Refers to renaming secedit.sdb
file. It suggests replacing it, but OS may create a new one if none available.