Inherited local security policy settings...

From: Brad Pears (bradpears_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/12/03 

Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:04:52 -0700

We have a WIndows 2000 SBS server and a member Windows
2000 server in a domain. My question is this...

When I look at the local security policy on the Windows
2000 member server, where are the inherited security
settings coming from?

For instance, we had an issue last week where
the 'Everyone' group had become unchecked in the
inherited list for the setting 'Access this computer from
the network'. This caused the server to be unaccessible
for anyone who had shortcuts on their desktop to it or
had mapped drives to it. Logging on locally was still
possible however.

When I checked the local security policy on this machine
the next day, I noticed that the 'Everyone' group had
been checked on the inherited side (the greyed out check
boxes). I do know what had happened, for that checkbox to
all of a sudden be checked all on it's own so I am
wondering where it would have been inherited from. I must
have made a change elsewhere for this to have happened.

Any help would be much appreciated...

Thanks,

Brad

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