One user cannot login to one workstation

[Hillel]

Hello,

I have one user at a remote site with a Windows XP workstation on a
Win2k domain. She cannot log in to her own workstation, but she can
log in to other XP workstations on the same subnet, and others with
seemingly identical security settings can log in to her workstation.
Her attempts to log in to her own workstation results in the standard
"System could not log you on" error message with a note to check that
the username and password are correct.

Any ideas on what this could be?

Thanks.
---Hillel

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hello,

I have one user at a remote site with a Windows XP workstation on a
Win2k domain. She cannot log in to her own workstation, but she can
log in to other XP workstations on the same subnet, and others with
seemingly identical security settings can log in to her workstation.
Her attempts to log in to her own workstation results in the standard
"System could not log you on" error message with a note to check that
the username and password are correct.

Any ideas on what this could be?

Thanks.
---Hillel

Has the workstation in question "fallen off" or been removed from the
domain?

 

[Hillel]

Has the workstation in question "fallen off" or been removed from the
domain?

No, it looks like it is still there in Active Directory. Other domain
users also
do not seem to have trouble with logging in to it.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

No, it looks like it is still there in Active Directory. Other domain
users also
do not seem to have trouble with logging in to it.

Remove her cached profile from the system and try again? (this is a cinch if
you use roaming profiles)

 

[Guest]

You might try deleting her user profile on that computer and let it create a
new one. The one on computer might be corrupted.

 

[Hillel]

Found the problem. I went over to the workstation, removed it from
the domain, and then added it back into the domain. It seems to work
for that user now. Still don't know what went wrong to cause the
problem to begin with.

Thanks to all who replied.
---Hillel

 

[Hillel]

Problem mysteriously came back. Now nothing seems to work to get this
user to log on.
I deleted her local profile on the workstation. The registry no
longer has any reference to
her user id. I can sign in as domain users who previously used this
workstation and
domain users that have not previously logged in there, and both do not
have problems,
except for this one user.

Just about every other reference I can find to a similar problem would
affect all domain users
on a particular workstation or the one user on all workstations. This
problem is limited to
just the one user on the one workstation.

Any more ideas on what this could be?

Thanks.
---Hillel

 

[Hillel]

OK. It gets even wierder. Things seem to be working now with user
login.
However, when this user tries to change her domain password, the
system
returns an error as if the username or password was mistyped. The
computer then again "falls off" the domain, and when another domain
user tries to login return the error "Account is disabled." When I
sign
in as the local administrator, remove the computer from the domain,
and then add it back to the domain, it ends up back at square one.