Help!! - Administrator Account problems.

[Guest]

Hi Everyone - I could really do with some help. I've just setup 5 new servers
in a new domain from scratch. Everything is fine apart from what appears to
be a corrupt administrator account. When the servers are locked, the
administrator cannot 'unlock' it - a different user with admin rights has to
unlock it. Also, when loading some software and I use the administrator
account, it says please use a valid username/password?? For all other tasks -
the administrator account seems fine. I know it's not down to a corrupt
screen saver etc. Is there any way of 'rebuilding' or resetting the
adminisrator account or anything else which may help me out. It's driving me
mad!! Please help.

Thanks

Dan

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

Hi Everyone - I could really do with some help. I've just setup 5 new servers
in a new domain from scratch. Everything is fine apart from what appears to
be a corrupt administrator account. When the servers are locked, the
administrator cannot 'unlock' it - a different user with admin rights has to
unlock it. Also, when loading some software and I use the administrator
account, it says please use a valid username/password?? For all other tasks -
the administrator account seems fine. I know it's not down to a corrupt
screen saver etc. Is there any way of 'rebuilding' or resetting the
adminisrator account or anything else which may help me out. It's driving me
mad!! Please help.

If this is standalone server and You are logging on local account You
can unlock admin account or reset the password using ntpasswd disk:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd

 

[Guest]

Hi

Thanks for that - the server is a DC and logging onto the domain.