I have a client whose Win 2K Pro box intermittently creates a duplicate user
account at login. They will log in to the network, see a nearly blank
desktop, and freak. What I find in Documents and Settings is a ghost user
named "username.domain.000". I fixed it last week by ...

We have three environments test, acceptance and production. On the test
and production environment everything works fine, but acceptance is
something different. So you should say make acceptance the same as test
and production. So I did but it still doesn't work.

 I have problem with modifying default domain controller policy.This
happens only for audit polices other settings are ok.The policy resets
automatically to original value after refresh.Please help.

Is anyone can tell me how to display the whole user's session of an entire
Active Directory and how to cancel one of them ?
P.S. : I already looked at session of the PDC role server without finding
whole users's sessions

How can I configure Windows 2000 Professional to logoff or lock the computer
automatically after a set idle time? This is not part of a domain, it is
stand alone. I thought it was set in Security under Administrative Tools, but
I guess I was wrong.

The Fips service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it
has no enabled devices associated with it.  I believe that this has something
do with IPSEC. I try to start the service and I can't

Is there a utility to reset the local administrator password on a Windows
2000 server?  Or is there any other means of changing it?  We know the
network administrator password but that does not work.  Noone knows the local
administrator password so we can get into the Recovery ...

I have an IPSEC policy setup on a windows 2000 server. When I turn on
the "Block all IP Traffic" filter on, I am no longer able to ping
machines and they are no longer able to ping me. I tried allowing port
7 for echo, but that didn't seem to fix the problem. The odd thing is

I have a user who tried to change his NT login pwd when prompted by the
system,but it always say that the " ..pwd is incorrect..." after typing in
the old pwd & the new pwd twice to confirm.
This old pwd is the same pwd used to logon to the domain.

I have a Windows 2003 Server with Service Pack 1.
I have just installed Windows Security Enhancements, including the Device
Locking components.
Now I am unable to create Volume Shadow Copies.

Win2K Adv Svr SP2 Cluster Active/Passive
Virtual SQl Server 2K SP2
When one of the servers in the cluster is replaced (re-use same drives), on
the first boot, PolicyAgent events 319 and 321 (Oakley and Ipsec driver

I would like to backup the main hard drive in my workstation by
"mirroring" it to another spare drive.  If this works, if the main
hard drive failed, it could be replaced by the "mirrored" spare hard
drive putting my workstation back in use.

Tried to install defender on 2000 server got gdi+ error installed patch and
then this error:
"Error 1920.Service Win Defend (Win Defend) failed to start. Verify that you
have sufficient privileges to start system services"

hi out there
We have a windows 2000 sp4 server which from time to time is being rebooted
- I wan't to track who or what is rebooting the server. I have tried to
enable auditing on several objects and events which I expect could give me

Is there third party software for Windows 2003 server let you know who is
copying files from the server to there workstations and who is copying files
back up to the server?
My guess is there would have to be some sort of client utility for this.