I have a computer in a remote location (6 hour drive) on a BOVPN back to our home office. The remote computer is running XP Pro, DC is on Sever 03 all system 100% up to date. The user was logged in and everything was working fine. The user restarted and now can not log on to the system. Gets the "Domain controller can not be reached" error. I can ping the system, and connect with the remote registry, but I get challenged for a password even though I am logged in as an Admin. When I give it the login information for the admin accoutn, it tells me "Access is denied". Any advice for what I could try before I drive 6 hours?
Can’t log on to Domain Controller
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Best Answer
You could have the remote user pull the network cable and login with his cached credentials.
I would use a windows password reset disk and reset the local admin password and then rejoin the domain.
All new systems get random passwords set to the local admin account which we keep in a database for cases such as this.