I have been trying to get logged into Server Administrator on a PowerEdge 1750 for the past couple of days. Initiallly I had upgraded from an older version of SA to the newer 4.3 version and since that time have been unable to login. I thought that perhaps I had done something wrong so I figured I would start from scratch and I reinstalled Windows Server 2003. All I installed were all of the Windows Updates except for SP1 and Server Administrator 4.3, but I am still having the same problem.
When I first open SA a login dialog box pops up. I have tried logging in with both domain accounts and local accounts. After the third failed attempt the dialog box goes away and it takes me to...
This page also asks for login credentials. I have tried local and domain accounts here as well. If I try to login with a domain admin account and check the "Active Directory Login" box or if I mistype a the local administrator password it says "Login failed..." at the bottom of the screen, logs a failure audit in the security log and the page it takes me to is...
But if I try to login with the local administrator account and type the password correctly I don't see the "login failed" message, I see a success audit in the security log, and the page it takes me to is...
I just tried logging in with a blank username and password but it didn't work. Is there a specific username I should be using? I tried the blank username/password with the local pc set in the domain drop down blox, the local domain set as in domain drop down box and by also checking the "Active Directory Login" box but every time it said "login failed".
Well, that didn't work, but I checked in the event log and found that if I use the local administrator password and the wrong password it will log four bad attempts. If I use the administrator password and the correct password it logs a successful authentication attempt but takes me back to the login page.
Then, just for the fun of it, I tried connecting with Firefox. Amazingly enough, it worked fine authenticating with both the local administrator account and a domain account. So, I figured the issue was with IE, but that didn't make sense because I've tried connecting from 2K, XP, Server 2K, and Server 2K3 and if none of those worked there would have been a lot more messages like this one posted.
Then it hit me, this server has an underscore in its name, so I used IE and browsed to the IP instead of server name and it worked fine. I added a DNS entry to use the same machine name but with a dash instead of an underscore and it worked fine. So, I guess it's an issue with underscores in the machine name and IE unless I'm missing something else.
Jingle2
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Posted May 23rd, 2005 15:00