Re: Need help please, Having trouble finding/adding users for purpose of granting permissions or adding them to groups in a win 2k domain on an XP workstation.
From: Danny Sanders (Danny.Sanders_at_cpcNOmedSPAM.org)
Date: 10/12/04
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:13:54 -0600
Did you add the computer to the domain?
I don't have an XP box near by, but in Win 2k, right click on my computer
and select properties - network Identification tab -
properties button.
Is it a member of the domain?
hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
<rmalph@happy.days> wrote in message
news:ip2mm0pukaf53c69vkghs8kdpakeujh25a@4ax.com...
> I am having trouble getting users added into NTFS permissions or in to
> groups. I have a single Win 2K server network, the W2K box is setup as
> a domain controller. I also setup a simulation in my lab of an XP Pro
> workstation and a single W2K Server running as the Domain controller.
> In both networks the real on and the lab simulation, when I go to
> select a user to add in to the group or to add to the NTFS permissions
> I can not find the Domain Users. I can only get a list of the local
> users.
>
> For example:
>
> I go to the XP computer and open the Computer Management console in
> control panel or the NTFS Security permissions tab. I then choose
> "Add User" and then click on the "Advanced" button. This brings up the
> "Select Users" window. In the "Locations" box under "From this
> location:" it shows the name of the local machine (The name of the XP
> workstation). I can not type in the box. If I click on the "Locations"
> button I get the option to select the location that I want, but the
> only thing that shows is a picture of a computer with the name of the
> local computer showing. I get no option or drop down list ect. that
> will let me pick the domain server for the location of the user. If I
> click on the computer picture nothing happens. If I click the "Find
> Now" button I get a list of all the users and groups on the local
> workstation. In the lab I have 2 systems running in a secure network
> and I have no firewalls, no anti-virus, no anything running except the
> default settings. I have all the latest Service Packs installed on all
> systems in and out of the lab. On the real world workstation I have a
> user that was originally created in Win 98. The WS was later upgraded
> to Win XP Pro. The drive was converted to NTFS. This user is not a
> member of the admins groups and never will be. This is a system I have
> inherited, I did not do the initial setup. I did do the Win98 to XP
> upgrade. If I log in as the existing user and go through the steps
> mentioned above I can get and option to look to a different location,
> i.e. the domain server, for users to add to the security/groups
> properties, but of course due to the lack of access right of this user
> I can not actually add the user in. The users that do have the access
> rights on both the workstation and the domain do not get the option to
> find/locate/see ect the domain server for users to add to the various
> security/group areas. On the systems in my lab I setup both the
> server/domain and the XP box from scratch. The XP box was not an
> upgrade from 98. It has the same lack of location choice problems that
> the production system has. This workstation is going to be accessed
> remotely from India and I need to lock the user who will access it
> from India out of everything except just the local folders and apps
> that he needs to run and access. I intend to remove all blind access
> from root on down to the users group and wish to replace the users
> group with one that only has the users I want to explicitly give
> access to etc, etc.
>
> So, how can I get the "Select Users" box to give me the option to look
> to the domain for the users ?
>
> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated,
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ralph Malph
>
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