lsass.exe problem when logging into terminal server.

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Hello All,

I'm having a fairly confusing issue with terminal services. I have a
win2k advanced server box that i'm trying to get to with remote
desktop. directly after reboot I can remote desktop into the server,
but after about 2-3 minutes i get the folloing message immediatly. I'm
not given a login prompt or allowed to enter any info.

"The client could not establish a connection to the remote computer

The most likely causes for this error
1)Remote connections migh not be enabled at the remote computer
2)The maximim number of remote connections was exceeded at the remote
computer
3)A network error occoured while establishing the connection"

I the odd thing is that I can connect immediatly after re-boot but not
after a few minutes.. this led me to believe there is a process that
has not started when i'm able to log in immediatly, and after a minute
or two it does start and gives me problems. So i put regmon on my
computer and caught the following log entries everytime i tried to log
into term services and got booted.., go here for a look at the logs,
(http://photos2.flickr.com/1975037_9bef4d9956_o.jpg). so you can see
it looks to be an issue with user authentication process...

I see there is a buffer overflow message, in line 7801 when it's
balking about an invalid user... If this is the issue.. can anyone help
me solve?

But this leads me to another question... why is it even checking for
user information when i'm just trying to hit the terminal service....

When I get booted i'm not given a login prompt or given the opprotunity
to do anything.. I just click the connect button in the remote desktop
client and immediatly get the above error.
Can anyone shed some light or help me out with the lsass.exe problem?