Unable to log on locally

Hi all,

I'm unable to log on locally to a member server (W2k R2) I get the message
'The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name and domain are
correct then type your password again.Letter in passwords must be typed in
using the correct case'

The user name and password are correct as is the domain as I can log on
without any problems using remote desktop. Domain Group Policy is set to
allow local log on for this user (administrator).
I've also tried a new keyboard in case the exisiting one was somehow faulty,
it wasn't!

Any thoughts or ideas warmly welcomed!

Bill

1. Perhaps domain controller or global catalog is not accessible. Perhaps
because of wrong DNS setting.

2. Keyboard locale might not be what you expect. Some keyboard layouts have
swapped "Y" and "Z" keys and special characters in relocated places.


"Zebby" <someone@nowhere> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm unable to log on locally to a member server (W2k R2) I get the message
> 'The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name and domain are
> correct then type your password again.Letter in passwords must be typed in
> using the correct case'
>
> The user name and password are correct as is the domain as I can log on
> without any problems using remote desktop. Domain Group Policy is set to
> allow local log on for this user (administrator).
> I've also tried a new keyboard in case the exisiting one was somehow
> faulty, it wasn't!
>
> Any thoughts or ideas warmly welcomed!
>
> Bill
>

Thanks for the reply!

Well it was the keyboard locale, but I don't know why.

On the login window it was telling me the locale was EN. Typing my password
into the user name field showed that when I typed '#' i was getting '/'
Using RDP to get to the system locale settings showed that everytihng was
set for the UK and was looking normal. Also typing a '#' gave me a '#'!
I rechecked the option 'Apply all settings to the current user account and
to the default user profile' in regional and language options rebooted now
everything is working fine.

"Dusko Savatovic" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 1. Perhaps domain controller or global catalog is not accessible. Perhaps
> because of wrong DNS setting.
>
> 2. Keyboard locale might not be what you expect. Some keyboard layouts
> have swapped "Y" and "Z" keys and special characters in relocated places.
>
>
> "Zebby" <someone@nowhere> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm unable to log on locally to a member server (W2k R2) I get the
>> message 'The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name and
>> domain are correct then type your password again.Letter in passwords must
>> be typed in using the correct case'
>>
>> The user name and password are correct as is the domain as I can log on
>> without any problems using remote desktop. Domain Group Policy is set to
>> allow local log on for this user (administrator).
>> I've also tried a new keyboard in case the exisiting one was somehow
>> faulty, it wasn't!
>>
>> Any thoughts or ideas warmly welcomed!
>>
>> Bill
>>