Can't Login At Console Or Rdp

[holly44]

Have a weird issue all of a sudden. I have an administrative log in for my 2008 domain controller. All of a sudden today I cannot log in at the console or through remote desktop. I can log in from a workstation and access all shares, including administrative shares. I attempted to log in as administrator and since I haven't done this in a while it prompted me to change the password. I changed the administrator password and now can not log in as administrator either. I'm baffled.

 

[ICTCity]

First restart your DC, if nothing changes, try login with LOCAL admin.

Let me know

 

[holly44]

First restart your DC, if nothing changes, try login with LOCAL admin.

Let me know

Tried that and no go. Also tried the "Reset domain Admin password on a Windows Server 2008 with only the official DVD install" found on Youtube and that didn't help either. Still can't login. I would think that if it allows login to the domain from a workstation it should also allow login at the server console (all of them I've ever worked with did), but such is not the case with this one.

 

[ICTCity]

What is the error message when you try to login?

Have you already tried to login in safe mode?

 

[holly44]

Tried that and no go. Also tried the "Reset domain Admin password on a Windows Server 2008 with only the official DVD install" found on Youtube and that didn't help either. Still can't login. I would think that if it allows login to the domain from a workstation it should also allow login at the server console (all of them I've ever worked with did), but such is not the case with this one.

Here's what I've tried lately:

Boot from the 2008 install CD. Rename Utilman to xUtilman and then rename cmd to Utilman. Reboot and open the command window. net user shows all accounts. Used net user to change password for all accounts. Used the /domain switch to ensure I was operating on domain accounts (which is should have been by default anyway). Also added another account with password. net user showed the newly added account.

Rebooted again from the CD and changed Utilman back to cmd and renamed xUtilman to Utilman. Rebooted to Windows. Still cannot login with any account. Also can no longer access shares on the server from workstations.

 

[holly44]

The only other thing I had odd happen was that I recently added a FreeNAS v8 machine to the network and setup the Active Directory options on it. When I noticed that I could not login to the domain I also found I could not access FreeNAS from my Windows machines, but could access the Apple shares from my Mac. This could just be because AD was hosed to begin with and FreeNAS couldn't access the domain accounts. I don't know if perhaps FreeNAS hosed AD or what. I took that machine off the network, but nothing changed.

 

[ICTCity]

Ok but can u login with A LOCAL ACCOUNT ?

 

[holly44]

Ok but can u login with A LOCAL ACCOUNT ?

No I cannot.

 

[ICTCity]

What's the error's message?

 

[holly44]

What's the error's message?

Invalid username or password

 

[holly44]

No point in worrying about it. I have to get the thing going and I have a backup of all the important stuff, so I'm just reinstalling 2008 on the box. Been messing with it on and off since 8am and I have other things I need to get done today.

 

[ICTCity]

it sounds like there's something wrong with the process which has the duty to pass credentials...