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Administrator Rights Server 2000

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by richard.m.hyatt

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I am administering a server for a company running Server 2000. I logged in to the domain using the Administrator user name and password. It acts like it does not have admin rights. I do not have group policies configured on it. When I log on to the computer locally as administrator I can do anything. The user name and password are the same. Why does it say I don't have admin rights when logging in as Administrator on the domain but I do have them when logged in locally?

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by danke

The user "administrator" on your domain is just that. A user. It can be granted administrative privileges and denied them.
An employee prior to you probably changed this account for security reasons, and created a different administrative account.

Try getting ahold of him.

Good luck!

by cliff680

I am imagining that you didn't setup the system, maybe whomever did used a different domain login as the "administrator" account and took privileges away fomr the administrator account. This is a rather common security practice. You should go to Active Directory Users and Computers and see which domain accounts are in the administrators group.

by richard.m.hyatt

I didn't set up the system. I'm still trying to figure out the system. This will help.

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