User account problems after changing server

[mike0680]

I recently had to change our 2003 server at one of our offices due to a hardware failure.

For speed I replaced it with a spare test server which had never been used and simply required a domain name change which I did through dcpromo and then changed the DNS and DHCP to the required IPs.

The old server was in no condition to allow a migration and as their were only 8 user accounts, I recreated these manually. These work fine except one.

However, my two problems are:

1. - A new account needed to be added and this simply refuses to log onto the server from any of the XP workstations (all XP).
2. - One of the old user accounts was incredibly difficult to set up (required name change at first login to name way beyond the minimum complexity). The logon name can only be used on the PC where the password change was made.

I feel it is more likely to be a policy problem on the XP workstations rather than the server. As IPs, domain and server names renamed unchanged I did not remove and rejoin the workstations to the new server. Was this a lazy mistake?

Has anyone any idea, please?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[schtek]

i would certainly try it as i have had that problem a few times only to rejoin and find it works fine after that!!!!

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