Daniel Billingsley wrote in
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I was trying to spare all the ugly details.
Network connection was disabled via Terminal Services, so
now obviously can't login using any domain account. I
had previously done some lockdown on the box so there's
no cached credentials. And apparently some of that
lockdown is preventing the local administrator account
from logging in.
So the short of it is I have NO way into this box and
it's an exchange server so full restore option would be
painful.
I've learned of the "load hive" option in regedit32 and
it will work, except that I don't know where the setting
is I need to change to enable the network connection
I doubt I can help as _many_ values are changed when a Local Area
Connection is toggled. Some of them are in keys which are named
specifically for the adapter and PCI-VEN number (and so vary). I've
never read of enable/disable via registry edits either. Typically
the GUI interface is used or the command-line netsh.exe program. It
seems neither of those are and option...
"apparently some of that lockdown is preventing the local
administrator account from logging in."
Ouch. Do you have physical access? One thought here is to boot into
the RC and replace the hive files from the most recent registry
backup. The Exchanger server is likely going to do sone damage to the
DB when it gets a power-off... Grrr. And there may be issues for
Exchange if the SECURITY (or other?) registry hive files are
replaced.
Summary: (correct?)
No network access due to disabled networking.
No local access due to a security lockout of Local accounts.
Hoping someone has some ideas for you short of crashing the machine.
I feel the pain, but admit that I have no perfect solutions known to
me. I wish I did.
