Re: Weird Issue

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From: rickiez (rickiez02_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/21/04


Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:35:28 GMT

Who are you logged in as when attempting this, Windows SHOULD prompt you
for credentials if you don't have them, but it's worth trying a user
that already has the credentials.

Nicolas Macarez wrote:

> Hi !
>
> My issue is rather weird to define.
>
> My config is as follows :
>
> One Dell PowerEdge server with Win2K Server installed as a Domain
> Controller, DNS, DHCP server.
> A few workstations (Win2K Pro and WinNT 4.0 Workstation) have properly
> joined the domain called MYDOMAIN. All the machines are properly patched
> (Windows Update).
>
> Everything is fine except one thing.
>
> For some reasons, I want to give the end users all the local administrative
> rights on any machine of the network. Usually, I do that by including the
> Domain Users group in the local Administrators group of each machine.
>
> This time, I just can't dothat: as soon as I try to browse the users and
> groups on the local machine and on the Domain (yes, it asks me my
> credentials as a Domain admin and I enter them properly, credentials as a
> member of the Domain Admin group), I am denied the access to the drop down
> list of the domain users and group ("insufficient privileges").
>
> The funny thing (weird) is that I can see the domain MYDOMAIN in the drop
> down list (if I select it, I get a grey part in the window indicating me
> that I have't got the sufficient privileges) as well a the name of the local
> machine.
>
> For the Win2K Pro clients, the workaround is to include the local
> Authenticated Users group in the local Administrators group - and it's OK.
> Such a group doesn't exist on Win NT 4.0 Workstations, so I am in a dead
> end.
>
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Help greatly appreciated.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>



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