Access Control

[computerguy]

Hi everyone,<br>I have a problem with access control on my workstations (win98, win95).&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a policy in place in which i specify user level access and specify my domain name as the source to obtain a list of users from, when a user logs in, if you check the access control tab it specifies userlevel access and my domain name is listed correctly, but when i share a folder and try&nbsp;&nbsp;to add users to the permissions, i get an error message &quot;no list of users available at this time&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;I cannot see the list of users from my NT server. The user has file and share priviledges. I have DHCP, WINS, and DNS servers setup on my network.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.<br><br>Thanks

 

[JDurbin]

Dumb Question from me, Do you have file sharing on?&nbsp;&nbsp;Just learning myself alot of this stuff too so take it easy on me&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I dont' have a policy setup unless I did it by accident and no DNS, WINS or DHCP service but Adding permissions works for me.&nbsp;&nbsp;I assume you successfully log on to the domain or you would have said as such.&nbsp;&nbsp;I realize you will be helping me much more than I can help you but I am just jumping in here too if you don't mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks <p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

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[JDurbin]

Dumb Question from me, Do you have file sharing on?&nbsp;&nbsp;Just learning myself alot of this stuff too so take it easy on me&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I dont' have a policy setup unless I did it by accident and no DNS, WINS or DHCP service but Adding permissions works for me.&nbsp;&nbsp;I assume you successfully log on to the domain or you would have said as such.&nbsp;&nbsp;I realize you will be helping me much more than I can help you but I am just jumping in here too if you don't mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks <p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

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[computerguy]

Thanks JDurbin for the reply, I welcome any suggestions.&nbsp;&nbsp;As for your question, its not a dumb question at all, sometimes i find solving a problem can be something simple that was just over looked.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, in my case, file and print sharing is turned on, I can share a file or folder but I can't assign anyone permissions to the folders, so i end up with a shared folder that no one can access.<br><br>Thanks

 

[JDurbin]

Hey!&nbsp;&nbsp;What group or what priviledges do you have on the server from your win98 machine?&nbsp;&nbsp;Can that be it?&nbsp;&nbsp;I always log in with administrative privledges from my 98 notebook.<br>Also, could the policy have screwed anything up?&nbsp;&nbsp;This is fun learning huh? <p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

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[computerguy]

Only certain groups in my policy have Share priviledges, but they cannot share a file, not even the administrator who has full control.&nbsp;&nbsp;The puzzling thing about this is that it worked fine up until about a month ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;The only thing I've change since then was I disabled password caching and enforced strong encryption on the passwords (for the extra security).&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm not sure if this will effect access control so i'm trying to do a bit of investigating to find out.&nbsp;&nbsp;If anyone know anything about this, i would appreciate the advice.<br><br>Thanks<br>Computerguy

 

[computerguy]

Hi everyone,<br>I've solved the problem with my access control,&nbsp;&nbsp;I noticed my policy file was not updated on my BDC, once I replicated my policy file from my PDC to my BDC, I was able to view the list of users when ever I share a resource.<br><br>Thanks everyone, and thanks JDurbin for the input,<br>Computerguy

 

[sollus]

Try installing the DCOM9x patch from Microsoft. Go to the MS Download Center,

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp?

and use a Keyword search for DCOM and either or both OS.

Good Luck.

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