Re: Cannot access security settings in Win 2003

From: Mikey_N (Brooklynbluster_at_KnuckleNumbers.com)
Date: 01/27/05


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:54:36 -0500

What I mean by 'get it straight' is that from my experiences, and from what
I have seen in the newsgroups, they made some bad choices when it came to
the default settings they use for Win2003 server and they need to fix that.
Of course it is nothing new to find poor judgement in the default settings
of MS products!

"Mikey_N" <Brooklynbluster@KnuckleNumbers.com> wrote in message
news:uCU8wgCBFHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Cannot get into Domain Controller Security Policy,
>
> > Users and Computers by finding the domain, right click to bring up
> > properties/Group Policy/properties -security to make sure domain admins
> have
> > at least read/write permissions.
>
> Cannot get in there either. Have rebooted numerous times. There is
something
> amiss here - it also takes a very very long time for the Domain users snap
> in to come up - like about five minutes. Don't find anything in the event
> log - I cleared it now and will watch for something now.
>
> whatever, thanks. I think I'll probably go back to Win2k server - this
isn't
> worth the time meanwhile, it can wait until MS gets it straight.
>
>
>
> "
> "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:%23%23Y92d$AFHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Can you access Domain Controller Security Policy? Check Event Viewer for
> any
> > pertinent errors and check your permissions to the default domain GPO in
> AD
> > Users and Computers by finding the domain, right click to bring up
> > properties/Group Policy/properties -security to make sure domain admins
> have
> > at least read/write permissions. While there try to use edit to manage
> > Domain Security Policy which is a subset of the default domain
> GPO/computer
> > configuration/Windows settings/security settings. Also try rebooting the
> > computer if none of that helps. --- Steve
> >
> >
> > "Mikey_N" <brooklynbluster@knucklenumbers.com> wrote in message
> > news:OAw2lz%23AFHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > >I want to manipulate some of the security settings in Win2003 server
> (eval
> > > version) (domain security policty, digital signatures, etc). I am
logged
> > > on
> > > with an account that has admin, domain admin, enterprise admin, group
> > > policy, etc. etc priveleges but these options are not avaible - they
are
> > > greyed out and disabled and when trying to access domain security
policy
> I
> > > get an error messages 'access denied.." I had been logging on through
> > > remote
> > > desktop and thought that perhaps that was the reason but then I logged
> on
> > > directly to the physical console with same results. The server is
Domain
> > > Controller and also DNS and DHCP server.
> > >
> > > What is wrong? How do I access these settings??
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.
> > > ________________________________________
> > >
> > > MN @ Hzn
> > > 212-480-7000 x17
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>



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