Re: New User

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From: rick (rick_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:39:05 -0700

You do mean on the local machine right, not the server. If I go to the
control panel, and user accounts. It shows mike just as an administrator, it
did show him once as belonging to admin, and user groups, but I removed him
from the users groups thinking that would correct the problem, and it didn't
Thanks

"Doug Sherman [MVP]" wrote:

> Add the domain user account for Mike to the Local Administrators group. You
> can do this through the Computer Management console - of course, you must be
> logged on with an domain account which is already a member of the Local
> Administrators group.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE Win2k/nT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "rick" <rick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DF335E7B-CDD5-4E80-A70B-9BDD4BEB1A2A@microsoft.com...
> > We recently got a new machine. I created a new user, which is a member of
> > all of the other groups everyone else is. But when I go to install any
> > softeware I get an error. I made sure that the username on the local
> machine
> > is an administrator. So I am logging on to the domain as mike, and there
> is
> > an account on the machine which is called mike and it is an administrator.
> I
> > am confused why I am getting this error if log in as administrator it will
> > install fine. Also it is an XP Pro machine. Thanks for the help
>
>
>

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