RE: Can Not Add User - Suddenly

From: Greg Crowe (crowe_at_ncmahq.org)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:41:18 -0700

I am definitely using WSS (Windows Server 2003 extension).
Sorry about the confusion.

I make a local user on the server, and it still gives me
this message.

>-----Original Message-----
>I suspect that you are running SharePoint team Services
(STS) which is at microsoft.public.sharepoint.teamservices
rather than Windows SharePoint Services which is this
newsgroup.
>
>This message usually comes up in STS when this user has
been assigned to the main site and then you try to assign
it to a sub web. The user already exists on the *server*
hence this message. You need therefore to speciy the user
in the subweb in the domain (4th) line as
<servername>\username rather than in the first line as
username
>
>If you are using STS v1 please post future messages to
that newsgroup.
>
>If you are using WSS then this message tends to come if
you have in the meantime deleted this user but soemthing
in the system thinks it is still there. There is in that
case a WSS FAQ item on this.
>
>Mike Walsh Helsinki Finland
>STS FAQ at www.collutions.com/Lists/FAQ
>WSS FAQ at wss.collutions.com
>please reply only to the newsgroup
>
>
>"Greg Crowe" wrote:
>
>> I don't know what may have happened, but I can not seem
to
>> add users to my subwebs anymore.
>>
>> I used to be able to do this just fine. I would either
add
>> a user that is in the AD of our domain, or create a
local
>> user on the server running STS and then add them. No
>> problem.
>>
>> Now, I can not do the latter. When I try to add a local
>> user to subweb, the display name cames up as the
username
>> (when I made the local user in Computer Management, I
gave
>> it a different display name), and then it gives me the
>> following message:
>>
>> "Can not add the user because a user with that name
>> already exists."
>>
>> Is there a setting or something that has gotten screwed
up?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>.
>

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