SBS 2003 password issue..

[Edge Tech NY]

Hey

I picked up a new client with SBS 03.. I was givin the admin password and i logged in when I was at the office. I noticed it was a very quick login, almost as if it was cached or a local profile..

I install logmein and try accessing the server and it says wrong password..

"the password just worked at the office" i say to myself.

I go back to office to see whats up and I log off and try to log back in and it says wrong password now!

As of now we are locked out of serve while the owner is trying to call the old IT company to see if they changed password..

Why would the wrong password work and now that I logged off and try logging in again it changed..?

 

[cyabro]

So the first time you logged in at the office you did actually have to type in the password?
Did you have to press CTRL+ALT+DEL first? i.e it was sitting at the normal login screen that you get when you first turn on the server and boot into SBS2003?

 

[OfficeTechs]

sounds like the user was logged in and the desktop was locked as opposed to you actually logging in.

Someone changed the password but you would have had to input the previous password to unlock the desktop. At least thats what i think, i may be wrong..

 

[Edge Tech NY]

Ya it was just "locked' i typed in "old" password and i got in.. when I actually did a "log off" and tried getting back in the password was wrong..

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Locked or fully logged off...does not matter....for that Administrator username it's the same. Since SBS is a domain controller, there is no "local" profile either...like there would be with a member server or a workstations. DCs only have a domain profile...no local.

My guess is caps lock confusion on the keyboard....or, after you were physically onsite and logged in....in the time period when you left...the old IT got a stick up their butt and remoted in and changed the Admin password on you out of spite.

 

[Edge Tech NY]

Deff isnt caps lock issue.. IT guy didnt know about me at the time..

 

[citizensmith]

Do they have the DR recovery mode password ?
Althuogh AD is off in F8 recovery mode you can use a some system hacks like srvany or screensaver rename to shell out to a system level command prompt on reboot. Then add a new user to administrators and off you go. hopefuly

 

[MobileTechie]

Are you sure about the login name rather than the password? Getting that wrong is a classic error I've got caught with many times.

Like Wolfie says, re-setting it isn't so hard so no need to worry.

 

[knc]

just use a password reset disk and try again..

 

[seedubya]

just use a password reset disk and try again..

This is NOT what he needs to do.
This is SBS, therefore the password required is a DOMAIN admin password and is not suceptible to changing using Petter Nordahl Bergen's boot disk et al.

This is more the direction he needs to go.