Security – There are currently no logon servers available

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I am running a Windows 7 laptop that is joined to my company's domain. When I installed Windows 7, I created an account for myself, joined to the domain, and it had been working quite well even though I'm physically remote most of the time, and not actually on the network.

However, today I created a new local user account (non-admin) for my little brother. While he was using it, he decided he wanted to install a program, because his account is not an admin, he was prompted to enter Administrator credentials to allow the program to make changes to his computer. I entered my credentials, and this is the first time I ran into the error message:

There are currently no logon servers
available to service the logon
request.

I tried logging off and loggin back in, rebooting, etc etc, and no matter what, every time I try to authenticate as my "normal" domain account – I get that message.

I can no longer access my computer as an administrator. I no longer know how to log in to my machine using any other account aside from my little brother's non-admin account.

I don't have any other local accounts created, and the default local admin account was never enabled.

I'd appreciate any ideas on how I can recover access to my account. Let me know if I can provide any more information.

FYI – This is a similar question but not sure any of the answers help me in my case. Error "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request"

Best Answer

I'd hazzard a guess that it's related to cached credentials... when you created the new user and logged in as it, you "wiped" the cached creds for your domain account. I suspect that the "fix" would be to connect to your work LAN again - then a DC would be available to authenticate you, and the cached creds would be restored - but it'd probably break again the next time your brother logged in....

It does kinda beg the question - are your IT peeps happy with you creating local logins for family members on your work kit? I know I wouldn't look kindly on my users trying this!! ;-)

Just my $0.02...