Logon Failure: the target account name is incorrect after making a ghost image of a server

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Published on 2010-04-05T16:51:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 16:53 UTC
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I recently replaced a failing SCSI drive in a Windows 2000 server with an IDE drive. I made an image of the SCSI drive and Ghosted it. The purpose of the machine was to give out DHCP at one location and host a couple of files.

When I restarted the machine with the new drive, DHCP appears to be working fine, but I cannot get to any of the shares. Instead, I get the following message when attempting to navigate using Explorer.

Logon Failure: the target account name is incorrect

It appears that this machine is not communicating with the main domain controller. Changes to user accounts (performed on the domain controller) are not replicated on this machine.

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