I can not login to Windows 2000 server

[Jeff Fan]

Hi All,

The Windows 2000 server is up and displays " Log On to Windows " , but when
I type user name: administrator and Password: xxxxxxxx, then click ok. the
system displays Loading personal settings and just second displays Seaving
your settings. Tehn back to Log on screen.

I can ping server and also can see server from Network Places. open the
server icon and only shared printers is displayed.

I don't know what's wrong and if I can just power off server and then power
on.

Thanks

Jeff

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi All,

The Windows 2000 server is up and displays " Log On to Windows " , but when
I type user name: administrator and Password: xxxxxxxx, then click ok. the
system displays Loading personal settings and just second displays Seaving
your settings. Tehn back to Log on screen.

I can ping server and also can see server from Network Places. open the
server icon and only shared printers is displayed.

I don't know what's wrong and if I can just power off server and then power
on.

Thanks

Jeff

This typically happens when hard disks are changed. Before you
change disks, delete any inappropriate or non-existing devices
as per Step 2 below.
1. From dos, copy userinit.exe to all the other hard drives
This should allow you to log in.
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/MountedDevices/:
delete all keys which look like "\DosDevice\<DRIVE_LETTER>:"
3. Point KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/Current Version/
Winlogon/Userinit to the correct location of userinit.exe
See also http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249321

You can also edit the registry of the problem machine via
a network connection to point the paging file back to where
it belongs:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
Memory Management