XP Missing desktop Icons, login script not running and asks forusername.

firstly sorry if this is the wrong group..i dont think it is..

we have 5 servers running Windows server 2003. we had to disconnect
the server rack from the network to move it to a new room. all this
involved was disconnecting the CAT5 cables from the back of the
servers, physically moved it to a new room and reconnected the CAT5's.
the whole move was 5 minutes, no computers were rebooted or needed to
be rebooted.

the next day almost all my 50+ users, after the put the password into
their xp computers would start loading the desktop but never show the
task bar, start menu or even the icons on their computers desktops.
Their login scripts wouldnt run either. Ctrl-Alt-Del, task manager,
file, run and typed in explorer or userinit or even the path to the
netlogon directory on the DC and the desktop would finish booting. ive
tried removing and re-adding computer accounts to the domain, not
successful. ive tried recreating user account on the local computers,
unsuccessful. ive tried replacing the userinit.exe from c:\windows
\system32\userinit.exe, also unsuccesful. after i typed in explorer
to task manager and got the desktop, id manually run the login script
batch files for my users. normally we just delete the network drive
mappings and re-add them. during a manual run of these .bat files, it
will ask for a username when re-adding one of the drive mappings.
which if you hit enter without entering a username it will just map
the drive and everything works fine.

any ideas please... not sure where to go next with this.

one other thing ive tried on these xp computers is modifying the
msconfig boot options. doing a selective startup it seems that when
the services check box is unchecked, the system boots ok. when its
checked we have this problem.

please help

Hello (E-Mail Removed),

Seems that there is no network connection between servers and clients. How
could you move servers without disconnecting them from power over different
rooms, long power cable and 2 powers supplies in each server? Can you ping
the servers by ip address, name and FQDN from the clients?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> firstly sorry if this is the wrong group..i dont think it is..
>
> we have 5 servers running Windows server 2003. we had to disconnect
> the server rack from the network to move it to a new room. all this
> involved was disconnecting the CAT5 cables from the back of the
> servers, physically moved it to a new room and reconnected the CAT5's.
> the whole move was 5 minutes, no computers were rebooted or needed to
> be rebooted.
>
> the next day almost all my 50+ users, after the put the password into
> their xp computers would start loading the desktop but never show the
> task bar, start menu or even the icons on their computers desktops.
> Their login scripts wouldnt run either. Ctrl-Alt-Del, task manager,
> file, run and typed in explorer or userinit or even the path to the
> netlogon directory on the DC and the desktop would finish booting. ive
> tried removing and re-adding computer accounts to the domain, not
> successful. ive tried recreating user account on the local computers,
> unsuccessful. ive tried replacing the userinit.exe from c:\windows
> \system32\userinit.exe, also unsuccesful. after i typed in explorer
> to task manager and got the desktop, id manually run the login script
> batch files for my users. normally we just delete the network drive
> mappings and re-add them. during a manual run of these .bat files, it
> will ask for a username when re-adding one of the drive mappings.
> which if you hit enter without entering a username it will just map
> the drive and everything works fine.
>
> any ideas please... not sure where to go next with this.
>
> one other thing ive tried on these xp computers is modifying the
> msconfig boot options. doing a selective startup it seems that when
> the services check box is unchecked, the system boots ok. when its
> checked we have this problem.
>
> please help
>