Local users don´t get Local administrator rights 1

[Mol]

I´ve created an image-file with Ghost of Windows 2000 Pro. The target for the Ghost-file was about 40 computers with the same configuration. Before the image was created, I used Sysprep to make it possible to get different SIDs and all.
The installation worked fine and the computers were distributed. The thought was that if anyone wanted to install some extra hardware or software, they had to go through us first, to get extended rights. Therefore, all users are simply just "users". The accounts are all local.
The problem occurrs when I add a local user to the local administrator group. No matter how we do it, the user don´t seem to get Administrator rights. It looks like the user is a member of the Administrator group, but the rights are "User-rights". This makes it quite hard to install programs, printers etc.
My first thought was that this had something to do with the Ghost-process, but I can´t find the source of the problem...

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

 

[takethapowerback]

we have had that problem also! Only thing I can think of is that you have to have an admin and admin password for that local machine, so if you just log on the computer as the admin for that local machine you should be able to install whatever you want. thats how we did it here.

 

[Mol]

Thanks for the answer... We can´t solve it that way, since the users aren´t normally supposed to have full access to their own machine - the machines contains databases with confidential information.
In some cases, I´ve used WinVNC to log on as administrator via the net, but the since the users only uses a modem-connection, it tends to be quite slow...
I think that the problem has something to do with the new computername that the computers were given after the ghost...

Thanks anyway

 

[Guest_imported]

I'm not sure if this will resolve your problem or not. There are 2 ways to add a user to the administrators group and I feel that the results are different depending on which way you add them. One way is to do it by right clicking on my computer and open the "manage" window then clicking on local users and groups, etc.. The other way is to do it thru control panel "users and passwords" then add a new user. I've had better success by using the "control panel" method of adding user administrators. Good luck and let me know how you make out..

 

[Mol]

Thanks Mike - that did it!
The users actually became administrators using the "Users and Passwords"-icon in the control panel. Using the runas-command (runas /USER:"computername"\Administrator mmc) does not make users administrators (strange enough).

The only problem is that when I´m going through the control panel, the user loses all other groups he or she is belonging to, making it necessary correct this afterwards.

Anyway - a solution is found - thanks once again Mike!

Regards
Mol