Cannot Login to My Win2000 Server

[Jim Bohan]

All of a sudden I cannot login to my Windows 2000 Server. It accepts
my ID and password and then kicks me out and reboots the server. If I
terminal services into it, then it accepts the id and pw but quickly
disconnects my session. I've tried several different IDs and pws. I
installed SP4 a week or so ago. HELP!?!
(I do have FTP access to the entire hard drive).

Jim Bohan

 

[BBarker]

My thoughts would be to do the following, Map a network
drive to C$ on affected machine and then open a DOS prompt
and do a dir "netdriveletter":\Documents and Settings\%
username%\Startup. See if there is anything in there that
could be causing it by running when you start up/log in,
to be safe I would move one thing out at a time and see if
one thing is causing it. If you don't get any resolution
from that, use regedit and connect to remote registry and
check
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Run\ and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER|SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Run\, anything you find in those you are not familiar
with do some googling on and see what you can find on
them. Or post back here and I will see if I can make out
anything that may be causing your problem.
If none of trhat solves it I would take a look at the
system and app logs of the server through event viewer and
see if there is any explanation of it in there. Hope this
helps....

 

[Bill Lowery]

Have you been able to check for the blaster worm? Check out the microsoft
and symantec pages for help with this virus/worm. Hope it helps.

Bill Lowery
MCSA, MCSE, A+