Windows 2000 Pro

[tgipson]

Hi,

I have a Win2K workstation that is in a workgroup. I have used a local operator login and password to get into the system. Now when I try to login, it will not recognize the operator password or the local admin password. I tried to access the system remotely via System Tools\Computer Management.....Local Users and Groups has a red X on it. Services, Disk Management,Event Viewer, etc. all give me an "access denied" error when I try to access them.

Knowns: Can ping system
System reboots and comes back online
No service errors
Ran util to change local admin password...no success

Any help would be greatly apprciated. Thanks in advance.

Stumped

 

[wolluf]

I have used a local operator login and password to get into the system

Do you mean you have a local username/password for the machine (the term operator login means nothing to me). Was this local user member of administrator's group?

By using the term local - does this mean the machine is/was member of a domain? if so, has it been removed from domain?

local admin password - do you mean logging on as Administrator?

Obvious question. When did you last successfully log on. and what's changed to your knowledge since then?