Hi all,
I am being stumped by one part of this new puzzle. A small company will be moving to a new office, the owner wants to keep old server and buy new work stations. Owner does not have enough money for new server software. Here is what I have to work with.
Win 2000 Server box which has ? single internal domain, config as PDC with DNS, active dir. The server acts as their file repository. There are 12 brand new XP pro SP2 work stations 11 are work stations and one for CAD. It?s all pretty garden variety as small networks go, I have configured all of the XP boxes with static IP?s DNS points to the Server which then forwards to the ISP for any non internal resolutions such as web surfing and pop3 E-mail from the ISP.
My problem is this When a regular user logs on to the domain, they gain rights to the active directory shares and printers available, and all works wonderful with one exception it appears that the default domain group policy does not allow the user to change the Local Power Option Properties such as ?Turn off monitor? ?Turn off hard disks? and the System Standby? settings. When they attempt to make changes to these items they get the following error, ?Power Policy Manager Unable to set Active Policy? I also noted that the Windows Fire wall is also automatically turned on each time they log on to the domain and they can not turn it off, it is grayed out. This happens for all users on all of the new XP boxes.
I have scoured the default domain group policy from top to bottom on the win 2000 server and for the life of me can not find anything in there the relates to the Display power settings and the windows firewall settings. What am I missing here? Am I looking in the wrong place? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is it OK to run windows server 2000 with XP or does the owner have to upgrade to server2003. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Jim