I upgraded my Primary Domain controller a month ago and here recently upgraded 5 more of my servers to Windows 2000 Server. Everything has been going good with the upgrades and the only problems I have had is the one's that are still NT4 Servers "Until" the past week.

"Issue" I leave for the night and everything is up and running but when I come in the next morning users are telling me they can not get to some systems. I go look at the server and its at the "Logon" which is correct because I use a logon screen saver Microsoft provides with 2000. Administrator is in the Username so all I have to so is type the password. I type the password and a message comes up telling me that only Domain Name\Administrator can unlock this work station. I am using the Domain Administrator user account and password and yet it's telling me that I am not and that only Domain Administrator can unlock this work station. Only way around this is to reboot.

Has anyone else had this issue and can you advise me where to look to find the fix for this?

I am using Active Directory also.

Thanks for any advise/help you can offer.
Willis

Is you server in a secure area? If not, have you checked your logs to see if anyone is attempting to login during off-duty work hours?

Server is in a Secure area so that is not the problem. Its like the server just forgets who it is.

Sounds like the screen saver is hosing it up, try just doing a ctl alt del and then k to lock the server. (It's the same as loggin off.) Disable the screen saver and see if that does it.

I disabled the Screen saver first thing this morning and did simply lock it with Ctrl Alt Del. I don't think thats the issue but it's was sure worth trying so I am doing so. Guess I will wait a few days and see if it comes back or not. Thx for the suggestions you guys :-)

Willis

Is your server a DC or is it just application server. If it is an application server, remove the server from the domain to a workgroup. Go do a domain controller and remove it from the domain. Rejoin the domain. This should fix the problem.

Good luck.

A quick point to correct what Rick said:

Using ctrl-alt-del then locking the computer is not the same as logging off. When the computer is in locked state, that user is still logged in and all active processes in that session are still running, the computer can only be unlocked by the user or a member of the admin group.

logging off would terminate the running processes and end that user session.