Hi
We have suddenly lost the ability to choose account information. When My Computer is right clicked and ‘manage’ selected, the Local Users and Groups folder has an X through it. When selected a message in the right hand pane says This computer is a domain controller, use the AD Users and Computers snap-in.
When this is accessed, an error message appears saying Naming information cannot be located because: No authority could be contacted for authentification.
The machine is a DELL 2400 poweredge, running Windows 2K + SBS, with GB’s of free space and 528MB RAM. Active Directory has not been enabled, and both the DNS and DHCP services have been disabled for some time.
This error first occurred this morning, and we noticed thatduring boot-up no message saying that security policies were being applied was displayed.
According to Microsoft’s Knowledge Base, and other sites detailing solutions to this, it is nearly alweays a DNS configuration error, however, DNS is not enabled.
Am I missing something? Any help will be gratefully received.
Thanks