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  • August 22, 2005 at 11:16 am #2186186

    SBS2003: Cant add user/reset password

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    by 621flatbed · about 18 years, 8 months ago

    I have a SBS 2003 Standard server which just had a hard drive fail in the RAID array which somehow needed a Windows repair to boot up. I couldn’t get into safe mode after waiting over 40 minutes. I went into safe mode and disabled every Exchange service as I no longer need it, we use a different server now.

    Now, one of my ~9 users can no longer login. WINS isn’t starting up because ‘the specified file no longer exists.’ I can’t reset her password – same error. I can’t add a new user – it says ‘error – contact administrator.’ I’ve tried upping the RID registry entry to 50 which was defaulted to 0. I ran dcdiag and found that the services failed, caused by ismserv. I started the ismserv service and set it to automatic. It now passes but I also get the following error:

    Starting test: systemlog
    * The System Event log test
    An Error Event occured. EventID: 0xC0001B58
    Time Generated: 08/22/2005 12:48:42
    (Event String could not be retrieved)
    ……………………. failed test systemlog

    This is the DC with no other servers on this network. It’s the DHCP and DNS server.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

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