Re: Domain Administrator Account Problems.
- From: DanielN <DanielN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:42:02 -0800
As to the menus, I've never seen them change of their own accord. How
are you logging on to the server? If you're doing it from a workstation,
then it sounds as if you have a profile problem, and it's logged you on
with a default profile instead of the correct one
(if you mean if i have logged on as administrator on a workstation and then
logged of yes i have but i have done that loads of times without this
happening). and there is supposed to be GPO or local GPO on the server that
is supposed to stop the administrator startmenu from being changed to an xp
one when logging onto the server (well i doubt it was called that but it
implied that). i remember coming across the GPO setting by mistake whilst
looking for another GPO.
well this is the thing it has been working ok for the past few weeks. it
doesnt matter if i am at the console or logon via RDP. Ps. Steve as for a
re-install it is impossible it has only been up and running for around 3
weeks and has been working fine up till now and there is no way i could
re-install not unless i
A) Want to live.
B) Keep a client.
C) Not go mad and end up jumping of a cliff.
I am trying to think of any reason on how this could have happened yes i can
get to server management from the startmenu or indeed if u logon then it
comes up automatically anyway. The management icons for DHCP and all the
others appear to be there if i goto control panel -> administrative tools.
there is one curious issue and i will check this with the client but when i
logged on at the server today it did say that it had been unexpectedly
shutdown now i dont know why and i forgot to mention that before. they may
have had a powercut or something i am the only one with admin rights.
There is another thing when looking at user properties in AD for the
accounts under the account tab all the users apart from administrator have
something filled in user logon name and pre-windows 2000 logon name although
this doesnt appear to be a problem. Also under the profiles tab i have set a
value for user profile path to \\servername\profiles$\%username% including
the administrator account i dont know if that is the cause of the problem but
it doesnt appear so, cause as i said it was working.
Anyway hay come on i havent done badly setting everything up.
I managed to setup the whole server including DHCP,DNS Roaming user
profiles, remote desktop logon and remote outlook access, Backup, forwarded
ports on the router, configured exchange to download via pop3 connector (no
cannot change this as the domain name is owned by a franchise) configured
SMTP to send via the hosts SMTP servers etc. This was my first job and i
didnt have a network admin to help me. Sometimes you just have to jump in and
for the most part i sorted the issues using my knowlege, using the web and
asking where i really couldnt find out like now.
My college lecturer thought i did pretty well he said no one else in terms
of students would have been able to configure most if any of what i did. I am
not trying to make myself out to be amazing or anything i am only repeating
what was said to me and to be honest i didnt think i would be able to do it
all anyway so i did surprise myself by managing to do what i did. I actually
wish i understood more, there is so much to understand.
"Joe" wrote:
DanielN wrote:.
Hi steve,
Thanks for the reply i can see what you are saying and i did do a dummy run
as best i could using microsoft virtual pc. I already noted below that they
dont cover sbs 2003 and the setup is different. I should have explained i
used the wizards for everything they could be used for. I took special care
to make sure i setup everything per sbs instructions and not how i would
setup a windows server 2003 enterprise box but used my knowlege of that to
assist me on this. I dont understand how microsoft can claim anyone can setup
a SBS installation with very little knowlege to be honest if i hadnt been
doing an MCSA i wouldnt have understood half of what they were going on about
and that's with having been a desktop support engineer for past 6 years (self
taught).
What you should have done was bought and studied that nice Mr Russel's
book first. There's a new edition now.
As to the menus, I've never seen them change of their own accord. How
are you logging on to the server? If you're doing it from a workstation,
then it sounds as if you have a profile problem, and it's logged you on
with a default profile instead of the correct one. Note that Terminal
Server will allow a non-admin RDP connection and logon to SBS, while the
console itself won't.
Try logging on to the server console, and see if your domain admin
account settings are normal. If so, suspect network trouble, which
is the usual reason for difficulties with profiles.
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