Logon Attempt Failed

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Rhea Urusky

I am getting this error when attempting to open Active Directory Users and
Groups on our Win2000 server. As far as I know nothing has changed, this
server is used for internet access and terminal services for users on our
Novell network. I have read many posts about this error but nothing has
helped so far. I have tried this advice:

At the command prompt enter the first command:
Secedit /configure /cfg c:\winnt\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
Once that completes then enter this one:
Secedit /configure /cfg c:\winnt\repair\secdc.inf /db secdc.sdb

This did not help. However I am not sure it worked as it's supposed to.
When I hit enter after the first line, help opened up at the appropriate
topic. Is that supposed to happen? It also opened again after the second
line was entered. I still could not access users and groups after runnning
the security re-configuration. I also found one post about virus infection,
but none of the files mentioned were present on our server. We have had
infections of backdoor trojans, but thye have been removed. What else can I
look at to fix this problem? Thanks.
 
Rhea,

If you got a help menu pop-up when attempting to run those commands, then
they did not process. This command will only run on a domain controller and
I cannot tell from your posting if this is a member server or a DC. If it
is a DC, try opening a command prompt and going down into your winnt\repair
folder. From there run "secedit /configure /cfg secsetup.inf /db
secsetup.sdb /log secsetup.log /verbose". If this runs properly, it will
give you a percentage readout as it runs. It may take a few minutes to
complete.

When the first command has completed, then run this command:
"secedit /configure /cfg secdc.inf /db secdc.sdb /log secdc.log /verbose"
This command should give you the same type of percentage readout as it runs.
When it finishes, you will need to reboot your domain controller for the
changes to take effect.

I hope this helps

Ray Lava
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
 
It is a domain controller. I will try your suggestion. We have had some
viruses and even though we have removed them I think something has been
changed and not fixed. The ServSecurity service is not running as the path
has been changed. I read an old post that said to edit the path in the
registry, but the registry path is not the same as what we have. We are
running Windows2000 server sp3.
 
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