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August 18, 2004 at 01:19 PM
d.jones092

Active Directory Mystery

by d.jones092 . Updated 22 years, 1 month ago

This is an UGLY one folks.

I have an accounting package on a Win2k Server, running SP4. What’s happening is that one of the program’s “auto-calc” macros is returning a database error. However, the error is only occuring on 3 of 4 of the users of the system. The 3 who are having trouble are a mix between 2 Win98 machines, 1 Win2k Pro machine w/SP4. The person who is able to perform the macro has successfully done so on one of the 98 machines, so I do not believe this to be a machine specific problem. Upon checking the permissions on the directory, I see a groupd called domainname\accountspayable. When I look in AD Users/Computers, I am totally unable to find the group in question, and the troubled users do not show this group in any of their memberships. They are acting like they’re members of this group because none of their other memberships would provide access to this directory. This is very strange. Has anyone else had trouble with “phantom” AD groups?

Thanks for any info.

Dennis Jones

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