I have a problem, that I no longer can access Central Administration Website, only the Sharepoint itself.
I was running installation of Sharepoint 2010 Server with administrative account ImTheAdmin, who is a Domain Admin in the MYDOMAIN domain. Using ImTheAdmin I installed Sharepoint 2010 on one of the Windows 2008 R2 member servers. Besides that, I made ImTheAdmin
the primary administrator of the Sharepoint. ImTheAdmin became the only user of this Sharepoint 2010 server after installation. I installed everything on one box with default installation settings. I used builtin SQL server, not Standard or Enterprise.
What then happened is:
Using ImTheAdmin account, I opened Central Administration Website, and it said, that I need to change the Farm Account, as the account for Farm was the default one (I think it was network service).
So I created a regular domain user in AD Users and Computers called MYDOMAIN\SPFarmAccount.
Then using IE, I went to the Central Administration Website page, which is meant for changing farm account usernames. I put in MYDOMAIN\SPFarmAccount down in to the form of Central Administration Website, added the check mark, that it would react to password
changes, and pressed Change.
Browser worked for a while, and after that nothing seemed to work. Neither my Sharepoint, nor Central Administration website. When going to Central Administration Website, it kept returning error: Can't access configuration database.
Then I went to do multiple things to fix this. Went to command prompt, ran stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin MYDOMAIN\SPFarmAccount -password password, restarted IIS with iisreset -noforce, restarted Sharepoint SQL server database.
After that I regained access to the regular Sharepoint website, but Central Administration Website keeps asking me for a password. I try it with ImTheAdmin, trying it with MYDOMAIN\SPFarmAccount -- to no avail.
Help.