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by jdotterer

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I changed the administrator password on my Win 2000 server. Shortly therafter I received an error when trying to access Active Directory Users and Computers. The error is this: Namimg info cannot be located because logon attempt failed. I am beginning to wonder if changing the password through Active Directory Users and Computers by right clicking the account was the right place to do this. If so, can I just reboot the server and will I de able to log back in with the new password?

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by ann777

It's not the right place to do that if you are already logged in as admin on that server. What you want to do is go back into AD Users and computers and change your password back. Then go to the Ctrl-Alt-Delect and use the change password buttonon the server. That will change the account on the computer and in AD. You will need to logout on any other servers that uses the same login/password and you will probably want to delete the profile on those other servers before logging out. Thenlogin with the new login/password combo once you have set it up on the original server.

by ann777

If you reboot the server with it having two passwords... one as local login (current password) and second as password in AD (new password)... the computer tends to lock out accounts because it still has the local password as being the last associated with the user. Do not reboot until the AD password is set back to original, and you have changed the password properly (via the Change Password button).

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