Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD
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@dafyre said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
Are you unable to logon to the box at all?
Yes, have CLI but nothing beyond that.
Essentials is booting to a CLI? that seems odd. It's the only server in the place I assume?
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@dafyre - so I asked two questions here and scott only gave one answer. But assuming it's the same answer for both, it's booting to a CLI, just like Hyper-V does, and there are no other AD servers, then he's just sitting there staring (or rather his remote hands are) at a logon prompt in CLI instead of GUI.
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Does 2012 Essentials have DSRM (Directory Services Recovery Mode) ?
Yes, and it doesn't work.
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At the CLI can you type 'powershell' to start powershell, or does it refuse as not authenticated?
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@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
At the CLI can you type 'powershell' to start powershell, or does it refuse as not authenticated?
No login available at all. Just a cli login screen.
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Could this be a time issue?
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@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
At the CLI can you type 'powershell' to start powershell, or does it refuse as not authenticated?
No login available at all. Just a cli login screen.
Take our network cable. Restart. Are you then able to login to CLI? (I've seen this work with GUI for similar issues)
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are you sure there is no local account that can be used to login?
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Has this box been restarted before?
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@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
Has this box been restarted before?
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
Quick background: Windows Server 2012 Essentials Physical Install, Domain Controller
System was rebooted and . . . .
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
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Yes, but obviously... im asking if its been rebooted successfully before... Aka, is this the first ever time its ever been booted and went tits up, or has it been rebooted totally fine many times before today...
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@Donahue said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
are you sure there is no local account that can be used to login?
The local administrative account is automatically disabled on DC's. Has been this way since before I can remember.
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@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
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Yes, but obviously... im asking if its been rebooted successfully before... Aka, is this the first ever time its ever been booted and went tits up, or has it been rebooted totally fine many times before today...
That is not at all how your question came across.
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
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Yes, but obviously... im asking if its been rebooted successfully before... Aka, is this the first ever time its ever been booted and went tits up, or has it been rebooted totally fine many times before today...
That is not at all how your question came across.
I of course entirely apologise. But even so, has it been booted many times successfully before?
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@Jimmy9008 Scott would have to answer that one.
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@Donahue said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
are you sure there is no local account that can be used to login?
If there is one, we don't know about it. It wasn't installed by any of us and local accounts are removed during the DCPromo.
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@black3dynamite said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
Could this be a time issue?
Should not be possible as it would only need to time to itself.
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@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
Has this box been restarted before?
Yes, but how long ago, I cannot say.
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@Jimmy9008 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
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Yes, but obviously... im asking if its been rebooted successfully before... Aka, is this the first ever time its ever been booted and went tits up, or has it been rebooted totally fine many times before today...
I understood what you meant. Had it been rebooted "before this."
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Donahue said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
are you sure there is no local account that can be used to login?
The local administrative account is automatically disabled on DC's. Has been this way since before I can remember.
Someone could have added it back later, in theory.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Donahue said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
are you sure there is no local account that can be used to login?
The local administrative account is automatically disabled on DC's. Has been this way since before I can remember.
Someone could have added it back later, in theory.
I'm pretty certain they are disabled and not able to be reactivated. It's been a while since I've had to look.
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
@Donahue said in Windows Server 2012 Essentials Cannot Find Login Server for AD:
are you sure there is no local account that can be used to login?
The local administrative account is automatically disabled on DC's. Has been this way since before I can remember.
Someone could have added it back later, in theory.
I'm pretty certain they are disabled and not able to be reactivated. It's been a while since I've had to look.
Right. You have to remove AD before it re-enables the local account.
