Access Denied - Computer Management WHY?

[CrusherG]

I am using Active Directory Users and Computers. I go to a computer object and click on Manage. Computer Management comes up. I have 14 computers besides the server. 1 DC. All computers work fine except 1. This computer comes up with the Local Users and Groups and a red "x". Saying unable to access the computer... Access is Denied. Networking is design the same as the others. The computer itself is running fine. Can ping to the name of the computer. Can ping from it. I am Lost!!!!! Any ideas?

Aaron

 

[tfg13]

You are absolutely sure that you are an administrator on that machine?

 

[buddafish]

check out if the remote registry service is running on the machine in question.

scottie

 

[CrusherG]

I am definitly in the admin group on the local machine. I deleted the members of that group and reinput and still did not help. I removed the comp from the domain and changed the name of the comp and then reinserted it into the domain. So I know that it is seeing the domain and active directory for it created a comp object in AD. This is a strange one.

remote registry is running - restarted it - no help

If I click on Device Manager within the computer manager I get an error "The computer name is invalid or cannot be reached."

But I can ping it etc.

 

[vbrocks]

Can you ping using both ip and fqdn?

 

[vbrocks]

On the bad computer try this ...at the command prompt

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns

 

[CrusherG]

Thanks for all your responses.

Here is the solution:

Microsoft Knowledge Base - 833324

That computer was set to a different time zone.

Aaron

I still cannot get system information on any of the computers through computer management. Can anyone confirm that they get it?

 

[swabs]

My experience has been that the "server" service is not running on the machine that you can't access.

 

[tfg13]

What do you mean "system information"? There are a lot of definitions of what system information is.

 

[CrusherG]

There is an item called system information in the Computer Management screen when you manage a computer from AD.

Aaron

 

[CrusherG]

Confirmed that the Server service is running but still getting eroor.

Aaron