Re: Disk Management

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nsattbi.com)
Date: 09/19/03 

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:56:00 GMT

You can't delete the built in administrator account. You should be able to
reset the password on it being a domain administrator if the domain admins
group is still in the local administrators group [assuming you are not
denied access to local users and groups also]. Then simply log on with the
new password. --- Steve

"Thomas Dietrich" <thomasdietrich@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:751501c37e10$408dfed0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello all,
>
> I'm logged on to a Win2K Server using the domain
> account DOMAIN\Administrator. Whenever I try to go into
> Disk Management I get an error message that access is
> denied: You don't have adequate security rights to use
> this resource.
>
> Ther is a local account named Administrator which I
> cannot log on because the password is different than the
> DOMAIN\Administrator account.
>
> Is it safe for me to delet the local account? If I do
> will that release the security on the Disk Manager so
> that I can access it? The DOMAIN\Administrator account
> is a member of the Domain Admins group and the group is
> in the local Administrators group on the server.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> Tom
>

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