I have recently built and deployed an SBS 2003 server. Today I joined one of my machines to that newly created domain. In this process (adding to domain, redirecting My Docs, etc.) I lost the ability to logoff. Not exactly clear when that happened, but the current state is no good.
I cannot log off using the start menu items. When the logoff or shutdown dialogs come up I can click the OK or Log Off and the dialog goes away, but nothing happens. I have looked at the task manager and really nothing happens. CPU doesn’t budge. I can continue working as long as I’d like.
I tried killing processes and services until my machine was essentially non-functional, but it didn’t logoff.
(In the end I killed a service that forced a shutdown of its own due to something it was doing. This is a neat trick if you want to force a machine to shutdown I suppose.)
I am able to go to a command prompt and issue a shutdown -l command to logoff. At which point I can use the login dialog to shutdown or restart the machine. The shutdown -r or -s aren’t working either.
Any help will be appreciated.