Re: User accounts being deleted

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From: Andy L (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 03:49:25 -0800

Hi Marina,

The application that requires local admin rights is an
ageing database that we are due to phase out. Some reports
just dont run if you don't have local admin rights.

OK... I've check file/print sharing and ipconfig shows
everything is pointing to the server. I have one WinXP
system that is not affected, I cant see anything in its
setup that is diferent from all the others. If I added a
new client system to the network today, by tomorrow I can
guarantee it will suffer the same problem.

If someone did have domain admin rights how would they
implement a policy that would have this effect?

Thanks... Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>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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