ERROR--- administrator can't log in to w2k active server

[rsantana]

The system administrator of our school is getting a
message that says " The local policy of this system does
not permit you to logon interactively" Basically for
some reason we can't log on as administrator. Before we
could but now we can't. The only thing that we did to the
server was add sp4, then we uninstalled it but still
can't log on as administrator. Is there anything we can
do to solve this problem? I already check the knowledge
base and followed their instructions but it didn't work.
This is a big school district and we need to have
administrative access asap. Please help us.
Thank You
Rsantana

 

[Tim Hines [MSFT]]

That error occurs if you the right to "log on locally" does not include
administrators or if the group has been assigned "deny logon locally". SP4
does not make any changes to this setting and it would have to be manually
configured. We have a few articles that address that and I'm not sure which
one you used. One of the ones below should resolve the error

285793 Error Message: The Local Policy of This System Does Not Permit You to
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=285793
276590 Error Message: The Local Policy of This System Does Not Permit You to
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=276590

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Tim Hines, MCSE, MCSA
Windows 2000 Directory Services

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[Paul McGuire]

On a workstation install the adminpak.msi so that you can open up AD users
and computers snap in. Then right click on the domain controllers folder
and properties. Group policy tab, and click edit for the default domain
controller policy. This will bring up gpedit
COmputer configurations
windows settings
security settings
local policies
user rights assignment
Now find the tab the says logon locally
add administrator
Close gpedit
then get out of all everything
Now go reboot the DC so that it can get the new policy
Log on as administrator.

HTH

Paul McGuire