Re: User accounts being deleted

From: Marina Roos [SBS-MVP] (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:06:09 +0100

Hi Andy,

What kind of an application is that, that it wants the user to be a local
admin???

Is File and Printersharing enabled on the workstations? Does the
ipconfig/all show that everything is pointing to the server IP? Are there
any users at all with domain admin rights? 

-- 
Regards,
Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP
"Andy L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:4d7001c4c581$d8273e00$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi Marina,
>
> Thanks for coming back to me. We have an application that
> doesn't run correctly unless the user has local admin
> rights to their system. I forgot to mention that the
> monitoring console for our anti-virus is unable to
> view/control these systems across the network, although
> they are updating correctly.
>
> If someone had been messing with Group Policies, what
> would I be looking for?
>
> Kind regards.... Andy
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Andy,
> >
> >Why would a user  need local admin rights? That is only
> needed when
> >installing applications.
> >Things don't happen just by itself. If you are not the
> one who perhaps made
> >group policies for this, then there must be someone else
> with admin rights
> >doing that.
> >
> >-- 
> >Regards,
> >
> >Marina
> >Microsoft SBS-MVP
> >
> >"Andy L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in
> bericht
> >news:0a5201c4c57a$539da9a0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Hi all, hope you can help with this problem. We have a
> >> SBS2K sever with 40 client workstations attached. The
> >> clients are a mixture of win2k and XP. A few weeks back
> I
> >> noticed that users accounts on their workstations had
> been
> >> removed, meaning anything that required admin rights on
> >> their PC was denied to them. I reset these by logging
> onto
> >> each system as a local administrator and added the
> domain
> >> users and domain administrators account to each one, but
> >> over a period of a couple of days these accounts have
> been
> >> deleted with the exception of one windows XP machine. I
> >> have repeated this exercise several times, and each time
> >> the accounts disapeared, sometimes in minutes, somtimes
> >> taking a couple of days. It is not possible that someone
> >> is manualy removing these as I have witnessed this
> >> happening when no one else has access to the network.
> >>
> >> I have checked for viruses, spyware, and any unusual
> >> registry entries on server and clients. There is also
> >> nothing set in group policies.
> >>
> >> Any help would be much appreciated, this is driving me
> mad.
> >>
> >> Regards...... Andy
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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