Re: Problem Adding New User to Site

To add user by referring him by e-mail, this address has to be in the E-mail
property of the user object in AD, so that SharePoint can look it up and
find the correspondent domain account. Or you can opt for adding users
specifying their accounts as Mike suggested.

THT,
Alex

"Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23rTGH9K0FHA.3180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I don't know about creating user by using the e-mail address as I never do
>that but there are normally two other methods of creating new users.
>
> One is to specify the domainname\username. That won't product this message
> unless the user had been added before and deleted only in one place and is
> thus still listed (you need to delete in two places)
>
> The other is to add a user of the local server (say Fred). If you try to
> add Fred without having first created Fred as a user on the server you
> will get this message. Even then when adding the user to WSS you will need
> to specify him as servername\Fred.
>
> I hope this helps with what seems to be an allied issue.
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> WSS FAQ http://wss.collutions.com
> please reply to the newsgroup only
>
> "Wayne" <ebooks(NoSpam)@skyenterprises.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:%235aPhpK0FHA.3588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I'm running SharePoint Services on 2003 Datacentre Server and I've set up
>> a
>> new web site using one of the provided templates, and currently I am the
>> only user with permissions to use the site as an Administrator.
>>
>> But I'm having difficulty adding new users to the site, for example from
>> within the new site if I click "Site Settings", "Manage Users", and "Add
>> Users", I go through the process of adding an email address (for the
>> purpose
>> of testing I have included one that belongs to me) and assigned it
>> Contributor rights, I click Next and fill in the blanks on the following
>> page, but when I click finish, I see the following error message:
>>
>> Error
>>
>> The user does not exist.
>>
>> Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.
>>
>> It would seem obvious to me that the User does not exist because the
>> process
>> I have just gone through is to do precisely that; add a new user!
>>
>> Can anyone tell me why I might be getting this error message, do I need
>> to
>> add the users in a different part of the site first (I've tried the same
>> procedure through the SharePoint Central Administration page - Manage Web
>> Site Users), or perhaps within IIS under the Permissions tab. This is a
>> single server with only an Internet connection and is not connected to
>> any
>> network or Active Directory.
>>
>> One final point: is it possible once I have this problem resolved, to
>> allow
>> users to self-register on the web site - I'm really trying to reduce the
>> input from me as web site administrator to manually add new users.
>>
>> Any help or suggestions will as always be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Wayne
>>
>>
>
>


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