Problem On Creating New User And Password

[satimis]

Hi folks,

 

Windows Server 2008 32 bit – as guest(VM) (new installation)

KVM – virtualization software

 

After installation completed (Core installation), having spent an hour I'm unable to set user and password (Other user)

 

username = satimisvm07

Password = v32mSMSL08/pwCODEvm/vmSMSL0832/etc.

 

Always popup = The user name or password is incorrect

 

I found following document

Windows Server 2008 Password Complexity Requirements

http://thebackroomtech.com/2008/03/10/windows-server-2008-password-complexity-requirements/

 

but can't find a solution. Please help. TIA

 

Remark:

I have another Windows Server 2008 64bit running on this virtual machine. Any conflict?

 

B.R.

satimis

[mmthomas]

Are you saying that you can't login or that create a new user?

 

If you are trying to set a password, it looks like the first password should work, but the other two that you list wouldn't. Part of the complexity requirement is that you can't have two consecutive characters the same in the password as in the account's full name and it looks like you have VM in common for some of those. But you shouldn't get an "incorrect password" error if you just are trying to set the password, you would get a "this password does not meet complexity requirements" message.

 

-Matt

[satimis]

Are you saying that you can't login or that create a new user?

 

If you are trying to set a password, it looks like the first password should work, but the other two that you list wouldn't. Part of the complexity requirement is that you can't have two consecutive characters the same in the password as in the account's full name and it looks like you have VM in common for some of those. But you shouldn't get an "incorrect password" error if you just are trying to set the password, you would get a "this password does not meet complexity requirements" message.

 

-Matt

 

Hi Matt,

 

 

CPU AMD Phenom II X4 955

Mobo - Asus M4A78T-E

RAM - 8G onboard DDR3 1033 dual channel

 

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

Something strange happened here.

 

I created the 1st VM (guest), say VM-1, running 64bit Windows Server 2008 without problem including creating administrator an user passwords. However after running about half day to configure the server I couldn't login with the same password. I don't know WHY, always saying "The user name or password is incorrect". I can't create/reset the password because VM-1 can't detect the USB/Flash drive.

 

Therefore I created another VM, say VM-2. It worked until now without problem on login. However there are problem on Audio device and USB Mass Storage device, 2 "!" appearing there. Unfortunately I couldn't find the drivers from Asus. Audio and USB drivers for 64bit Windows Server 2008 are unavailable. I tried the respective drivers for 64 bit Windows 7 without success.

 

The USB drive has been successfully attached to Windows Server 2008 but it can't detect it. There are another 4 VMs on this virtual machines running Ubuntu9.10, Fedora12, Debian503, etc. All of them detect the USB driver without problem. Files can be upload and download from the said drive. I ran command on console to attach the device to VMs with output "Successful", same to Windows Server 2008.

 

For driver reason I create another VM, say VM-3, running 32bit Windows Server 2008. After installation completed it asked for creating password (without asking for creating user name), only saying "Other User". No password can satisfy the request. That is the complete story and the present situation.

 

I have no idea how to proceed except deleting this VM and start over again.

 

(Remark: Audio and USB drivers of Windows Server 2008 for the captioned mobo are unavailable. I checked Asus website. I have 32bit Vista running on another HD of this PC (for testing only). It works without problem on Audio and USB drive. I'm in anticipation using their drivers on 32 bit Windows Server 2008. Otherwise there will be no solution on Windows Server 2008, both 32 and 64bit. Audio is NOT important to server but USB drive is. Although I have way getting around the later, the users don't. They are NOT administrator.)

 

 

B.R.

satimis

[mmthomas]

 

For driver reason I create another VM, say VM-3, running 32bit Windows Server 2008. After installation completed it asked for creating password (without asking for creating user name), only saying "Other User". No password can satisfy the request. That is the complete story and the present situation.

 

I have no idea how to proceed except deleting this VM and start over again.

 

 

You may have installed an early version of Server 2008. It's creation of the administrator account was a little different. If you are seeing the "Other User" button at the end of the install, try putting in "administrator" for the user id and leave the password blank. If that lets you in, you can change the password once you are logged in.