I rebooted my desktop PC, and for some reason when I booted into windows vista, it was unable to map my windows home server network drive. I hadn’t changed anything on WHS, but I was getting the error … The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged on to. I Looked in the WHS Console, and my account that I use to connect to the share was Enabled, so it must have been something else. A quick google showed that other people have had a problem but no clear solution. I decided to use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to the WHS and look at the user account, and a few moments later I was back in business.

Here’s how to solve it:

1. Open a remote desktop connection to your Windows Home Server computer, and be sure to log in as administrator (should be same password you use when logging into the WHS Console).
2. Once at the desktop and Internet Explorer pops up (it usually does), just close it.
3. Open the start menu, right click on My Computer and go to Manage.
4. In the left “Tree View” double click on Local Users and Groups, then double click on the Users folder.
5. In the right pane a list of all user accounts should be populated, some you will recognize, some you won’t. Anyways locate the account you are trying to “Unlock”, mine was Marf. Right click the account, and go to properties.
6. Then you will see a little checkbox in the bottom of the window that says “Account is Locked Out”, uncheck this box, click okay.
7. Now you can minimize the Remote desktop Connection and try to connect to the share \\yourshare from your actual PC, if it works, then you can go to Start Menu and Log Off.

Enjoy!