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by jleroux

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I have a SBS windows 2000 domain, with only one DC. Our lan is composed of mix win2k and win95 workstation.

Last week we reset the password for all user, and since then all our windows 95 workstation loose their communication with the server while still logged on. They reboot their machine and when they try to logon in, they received this message:
"The domain password you supplied is not correct, or access to your logon server has been denied."

If we reboot the server, it correct the problem for about 1 day. It is very anoying.

I research technet, posted to microsoft, and no answer.

I need help.

Jasmin.

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by dave the computer guy

Jasmin, one thing you may want to look at is the password stored by Windows 95. Every time a person logs on to a Win 95/98 PC it creates a password file for that user. I have seen a case when I've used the correct password for the Domain but Windows is still using the old password. I would suggest deleting the *.pwl files on a 95 workstation to see if this fixes the problem.

by jleroux

Hi dmeisel,

Thank you for your time. I already try that. I don't have any problem to login on the domain, I just loose the connection with the domain and the credential. It is not a password problem, it is like a synchronization of the credential I think,

Thank you,

Jasmin

by ggainey

Jasmin,
i had a similar problem and the answer seemed to be on the win2k server. my users would have to try multiple times to log in and would continually get the same message that you quoted. what fixed the problem for me was under "active directory users & computers" then under the user properties for users that log onto win9x machines, make sure that they have pre-win2000 compatible access available under the security tab.

by jleroux

Hi ggainey,
Thank you for your response
All users have pre-win2000 compatible access :
Read
Read Phone and Mail Option
Read General Information
Read Remote Access Information
Read Account Restrictions
Read Logon Information
Read Web Information

Thank you,
jasmin.

by clive scotland

Ihad a similar problem, I was on a windows 2000 computer and I changed my password, I found that myaccount was being locked out even when I was currentlyon the network. I dont know if this would solve your problem though, but it was more of a time period thing, where if you just waited for about 3 days or so the problem would fade away however if you keep changing passwords the problem occors constantly.

What we do here is that when a user has forgoten a password and needs it changed, we change it to a temporary password then we make them wait for 24hrs until they change it. It seems that microsoft has known about this bug on 2000 servers and they said a fix for it would come out with Service Pack 3

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