Create new user - cannot login

[Frank Booth Snr]

As an administrator I can login to my PC on Win2k. If a new user is
created, Win2k creates it (seen in Control Panel/Users and Passwords).
but when the new user tries to login the message "Windows cannot log you
on because the profile cannot be loaded. Contact your network
administrator. Access denied"

The error code from the audit log is 3221225578.

This only occurs on my main hdd. I have another hdd in the PC also
running on Win2k which creates new users without any login problems.
This drive is formatted with FAT32, whereas the main drive is NTFS. Also
the main hdd has a firewall operating when connected to the internet,
whereas no firewall is loaded for the second hdd, but I don't know if
this is relevant.

Any suggestions what might be causing the problem on the main HDD.

 

[John John]

Sounds like a permissions issue. Make sure that "Everyone" has at least
Read permissions on the System partition's root folder and on the
%systemroot% folder and subfolders. Also check the permissions on the
Documents and Settings folder "Everyone" should have at least read
permissions on it. The profile folders within are (usually) restricted
to the users SID, Administrators and the System account.

John

 

[Frank Booth Snr]

Sounds like a permissions issue. Make sure that "Everyone" has at least
Read permissions on the System partition's root folder and on the
%systemroot% folder and subfolders. Also check the permissions on the
Documents and Settings folder "Everyone" should have at least read
permissions on it. The profile folders within are (usually) restricted
to the users SID, Administrators and the System account.

I've solved it now. it seems that my firewall was interfering when
logging off a profile. I've downloaded a software program which has
fixed it.