Administrator Password - Question

External Since: Nov 07, 2005 Posts: 1

Hi,

I have a forest with two Servers running Windows 2000 Server, both of which
have AD installed. They system was not setup properly, and there was no
second account with administrative right, hence, only the Administrator had
the administrative rights. They systems are both running on a raid 5.

Sometime back, I had to change the password for Administrator, and I did
that using Active Driectory users and Computers console. This wasn't the
First Server that I had installed on the network, hence it did not have the
Global Catalog (as default).

Unfortunately, there was a problem (I don't understand exactly if it was
network, or some synchronization problem), and now, I cannot log onto both
the servers using neither the hold or the new password.

This network was not connected to the internet, and I am sure no one has
changed the passwords.

Any Ideas what I can do to reset my password?

Will appreciate any input, or explanation of what might have gone wrong.

Thank you!

Tj

External Since: Feb 18, 2004 Posts: 226

Did you possibly change the name of the administrator account? I can't
think of a reason why you could not logon if you know both the new and old
password though the new password should work unless you have a replication
problem among the two domain controllers. Use the command net localgroup
administrators to see the names of users in the administrators groups
assuming you can logon with some domain user account. There is a procedure
shown at the link below to reset the password for the built in administrator
account for the domain that requires that you have full physical access to
the domain controller and shows the importance of physically securing domain
controllers. --- Steve

http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_password_in_windows_2000_ad.htm

"Tj" wrote in message

> Hi,
>
> I have a forest with two Servers running Windows 2000 Server, both of
> which
> have AD installed. They system was not setup properly, and there was no
> second account with administrative right, hence, only the Administrator
> had
> the administrative rights. They systems are both running on a raid 5.
>
> Sometime back, I had to change the password for Administrator, and I did
> that using Active Driectory users and Computers console. This wasn't the
> First Server that I had installed on the network, hence it did not have
> the
> Global Catalog (as default).
>
> Unfortunately, there was a problem (I don't understand exactly if it was
> network, or some synchronization problem), and now, I cannot log onto both
> the servers using neither the hold or the new password.
>
> This network was not connected to the internet, and I am sure no one has
> changed the passwords.
>
> Any Ideas what I can do to reset my password?
>
> Will appreciate any input, or explanation of what might have gone wrong.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Tj