Re: XP & W2K server User rights need help

From: xavier (xaviervp_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 04/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:52:55 -0700

Well after trying many things I decided to remove
quickbooks, disjoin the domain then redo it all and now
it is working, one guess I have is who ever did this
before did not install the apps as admin.

>-----Original Message-----
>If the only domain controller was replaced by not having
>two domain controllers temporarily, then you have
defined
>a new domain, even if it has the same old name.
>If there are no users when you examine the AD Users and
>Computers of the domain, then there are no domain user
>accounts (as when an old domain is trashed and then
rebuilt).
>In that case you need to redefine what is needed, and
likely
>should disjoin/rejoin the client machines.
>
>Have you tried defining a local user account that is a
local
>admin (other than the Administrator) to see if it can
run the
>Quickbooks app ? This narrows the issue, since any
admin
>(whether local account of via domain group membership in
>local Administrators) should be treated the same by a
well
>behaved app. And, BTW, Quickbooks is not a well-behaved
>app but rather seems to be one of those that believes
that
>taking a DOSish downlevel WinOS app and installing it
>in an uplevel Windows is all that should be needed on
the
>part of the app developers.
>
>
>--
>Roger Abell
>MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA, MCSE both
>Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>"xavier" <xaviervp@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:02e301c30b6c$68b91780$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> There are no errors anywhere other than when you
launch
>> quickbooks it pops up an error saying "you do not have
>> sufficient rights to run this application please
contact
>> your network administrator.
>>
>> Like I mentioned before I even tested making these
users
>> part of the local admin group with rights to the
>> computer, and domain admin.
>>
>> I went and looked at the properties of the intuit
folder
>> and users, Administrators, and Domain admins show
listed.
>>
>> I could not find anything in their website.
>>
>> thanks Xavier
>>
>> Here is another fact, this domain server had to be
>> replaced so a new one was created, in the old domain
>> server non of the users had accounts only the computers
>> when I went to each computer non except 1 had any
users
>> created localy.
>>
>> Don't ask me how or why, I didn't create the first
server
>> the owner had a client who sells computers set it up
for
>> him, I came in later as a friend to help him redo it
>> cause the other one was way to slow (MS minimum
>> requierments P166 with 64mb ram) I setup a new server
>> P4-2.8 with 512mb ram and 200mb drive, I have setup
many
>> servers with AD but never seen a network where all
users
>> exist only on one computer a workstation but not on
the
>> others or the server.
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >More information is needed. What sorts of error
>> messages are you seeing?
>> >Are there any errors in the event logs? Is the
program
>> licensed correctly?
>> >
>> >Have you checked out Intuit's support pages for
>> information?
>> >
>> >"Xavier" <xaviervp@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> >news:034401c30b35$21283040$3401280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> I have 4 users who have no local accounts on XP-Pro
>> >> workstations and are setup as follows.
>> >> Accounts in AD Power users with admin rights to
local
>> >> machine.
>> >> Some programs do not run specificaly quickbooks, I
>> tried
>> >> giving them AD admin rights still no luck even with
>> >> Domain admin rights.
>> >> quickbooks reports users do not have sufficent
rights
>> to
>> >> run application.
>> >>
>> >> Where else can I look to get this issue fixed.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you
>> >> Xavier
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>.
>

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