Re: Administrators Permission on Network

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:34:48 -0400

John wrote:
> Well they are accusing me of denying access to the
> network administrators, but all i did was set up
> permissions to stop a select few from accessing my c
> drive.
>
> I have just spoken to the network administrator for a
> large bank with 180 servers and 1500 users and he says
> that unless I had network administrative rights then I
> could not lock them out.

Not true. If you have local admin rights you can deny them access to your
local computer, as you did.
>
> I only had local admin rights and was restricted to very
> little on the network, ie accessing certain folders were
> prohibited...
>
> Does that make sense???

Ask them why any users have local admin rights. Also - it isn't your
computer, it's the company's. You have to abide by their rules.
>
> Thanks
>> -----Original Message-----
>> What exactly are they saying you did? If you have local admin rights
>> and played with settings on your computer you could easily lock out
>> the domain admins from access. However, if they really cared about
>> security, etc., they'd never have given you local admin rights to
>> begin with.
>>
>> John wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Could anyone tell me if it is possible to "lock out" a
>>> network administrator on a domain of any type? I have
>>> been claimed to have denied access to the network
>>> administrators but I do not see how this is possible as I
>>> thought they had overall control on the network???
>>>
>>> HELP ME PLEASE - URGENT!!!!
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> John
>>
>>
>> .

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