Allow tools to run on Windows 2003 Server nodes

With Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft introduced a new security feature using a local security policy called "Allow log on locally." This logon right determines which users can interactively log on to a system. On the Windows 2003 server, the Domain Users group and the Domain Admins group are not included in this new policy.

Existing tools that ran correctly on Windows 2000 might fail on Windows 2003 Server. This means that a tool set up to run as a domain user will fail with the following error message:

Logon attempt for user (ov-excl\joec) failed. The account name may be unknown or the password was wrong.

To allow tools to run on Windows 2003 Server nodes

The problem can be solved in one of the following ways:

• Add the domain user to the Windows 2003 local security policy "Allow log on locally."

  Go to Start Administrative Tools Local Security Policy. Then select Local Policies User Right Assignment and right-click Allow log on locally to open the properties of the Allow log on locally setting.

• Add the user to the local Administrators group.