I have a standalone windows xp pro system with SP2. When I try to login, I
am told my account has "expired" see the administrator. I am the admin, so I
log in and reset the password, and notice that the password was set to "never
expire" I have since learned that the account itself can expire. it was
connected to a peer to peer network with a win 2003 server(we have not yet
made it the domain controller) The access to all of the machines on the
network is through being connected to a workgroup, not a domain.

I recieve a login error of 532 account expired. Microsoft mentions this
briefly, but does not say how to reset the expired account.

I have "relaxed" all of the local security policies, timeouts etc but to no
avail.

I did find one command line reference "net user "username" /active:yes
that was supposed to re-enable the expired account. It did not work.

Please, does anyone know how to re-enable this account on a standalone pc?

Thanks in advance

Kevin

I have never had to deal with an expired account but what I would try is to
configure the account so that it never expires or change the expiration date
to a time in the future. You may also need to make the account active again.
Use the command net help user to see how to configure those options. ---
Steve

/ACTIVE:{YES | NO} Activates or deactivates the account. If
the account is not active, the user cannot
access the server. The default is YES.

/EXPIRES:{date | NEVER} Causes the account to expire if date is
set. NEVER sets no time limit on the
account. An expiration date is in the
form mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy, depending on the
country code. Months can be a number,
spelled out, or abbreviated with three
letters. Year can be two or four numbers.
Use slashes(/) (no spaces) to separate
parts of the date.

"pioneerx" <pioneerx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a standalone windows xp pro system with SP2. When I try to login, I
> am told my account has "expired" see the administrator. I am the admin,
> so I
> log in and reset the password, and notice that the password was set to
> "never
> expire" I have since learned that the account itself can expire. it was
> connected to a peer to peer network with a win 2003 server(we have not yet
> made it the domain controller) The access to all of the machines on the
> network is through being connected to a workgroup, not a domain.
>
> I recieve a login error of 532 account expired. Microsoft mentions this
> briefly, but does not say how to reset the expired account.
>
> I have "relaxed" all of the local security policies, timeouts etc but to
> no
> avail.
>
> I did find one command line reference "net user "username" /active:yes
> that was supposed to re-enable the expired account. It did not work.
>
> Please, does anyone know how to re-enable this account on a standalone pc?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Kevin