Since I have been in IT (since 1997) I have had a Novell server in my network.  Why you ask?  Well they just work.

I started my career as a Systems Administrator for Computer Learning Centers, INC.  We have 3 Novell servers ranging from 3.12 to 4.11.  I bet over the 3 years I was there they might have crashed 5 times.  Trust me they were not the built on the best hardware, but they worked.

When I started my career at my current position, I inherited another Novell 4.11 server.  For my early years here, we needed it to run our accounting software.  We didn’t have the Windows Version.  Besides a raid controller going bad and me having to rebuild the server on new hardware, the thing never went down.  This beast has to be at least 13 or 14 years old and it still runs fine.

With that said, we went to a new web based accounting software and I wanted to upgrade our backup software.  This signaled the end for the Novell 4.11 server.  We have 3 Windows Servers in house and I can use them for file sharing etc.  So today I shut it down.  I guess I don’t need my CNA Certification up any longer!

I’ve run into this a few times over the years.  Here is the Scenario

Windows 2000/2003 Domain

Windows XP Clients

The user has just changed their password.

The user can log into the computer fine with their new password but access to shared resources (their home directory and even logon scripts) return an error of Access Denied.  This also denies them access to their email.

You need to go into the Control Panel then to User accounts.

Then Click on the Advanced Tab and navigate to the Manage Passwords.  The password that is stored on the PC for the server in question is wrong.  I would just delete the stored password and try to access the share again.  It will now use the user credentials from the PC and not from the passwords stored on the computer.

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I’ve been using wordpress for a number of years and the backend does provide a nice interface for creating posts, pages and maintaining your site but you still had to login to your website and upload graphics to your posts.

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