Windows 2003 Server Pass

So about a month ago, i got a copy of Windows 2003 Server to play with. I slapped together a box and through it in, worked fine, it has been up for about 1 month now.....to my point. I have not messed with it until tonight, and i desided to play a little with IIS. The PC was locked and i entered my usual password for the admin to unlock it, did some work, installed somethings and rebooted the box. Now, i Cannot login to the box. Using the same username and pass i just used 5 minutes prior.....

any thoughts? thanks in advance.

more than likely, you will have to reinstall it.

Unless you created different accounts on there with admin rights?

I am not worried about reinstall, i am aware that i will have to do that...as much as i dont want to....
Thanks for the reply.

Does anyone know how this might have happened?

Where you using the 180 trial day of the 2003? A Beta who get lock after a while or something? Or this is a 'normal' copy of Windows 2003?

I am not sure, nothing led me to believe this was a BETA, i recieved it from a buddy of mine.

What did you install, or do to it? My copy works fine, mind you I don't often reboot it, but it does work fine when I do.

Peace

MB

I did run a eval version of Server 2003 once and played around with dates trying to get it to last me more than six months. lol, but it screwed it up and when I tried to log in it told me that my eval period was over and i couldnt' get in to the desktop.

This might be what happened to you.

This actually was a Full Version i just checked it.
I have wiped it and i am in the process of reinstalling.....
The only thing that it installed was a Media Player update, that is what did a reboot.
I am probably being over paranoid on this, i am not sure what it could have been....
Thanks again to everyone for all of your input on this...