Permissions

[golf212]

I just did a clean install of RC1, rather than upgrade to B2. Install went fine, about 1hr+ on 933mhz CPU with 512mb ram. I set up the login ID/psw as my office domain login/psw. I can log into office network and I can get to my mapped drives and the internet, etc.

First piece of software I tried to install, it says I don't have permission to install. I have tried to get into the Administrator account, (no password) as advised, but it keeps telling me "The account has been disabled, Please see your system administrator."

I remember that when I was seting up the domain access to our network it asked if I wanted to be a User or Administrator, did I make the wrong selection there (chose user)?

Any thoughts? Or should I do a reinstall, but what do I watch for the next time? Is there way to get into the Admin account?

Thanks in Advance,
John

 

[bcastner]

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsvistasecurity/archive/2006/08/27/windowsvistasecurity_.aspx

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[golf212]

Thanks for the link Bcastner. Will add that to my file of Tips/Notes on Vista.

Our local Tech Guru resolved the problem for me. We have a group policy that can be applied to the Administrator group to allow a user rights on the domain and the local computer they are logged into. Once that was setup, I able to run the program installs with no pain.

John

 

[linney]

In Ultimate you may enable the local Administrator Account via the MMC Console and the Local Users and Groups/ Users section (not so easy for the Home versions). Make sure that you have a local Administrative User created for local access on your machine.

 

[bcastner]

Which sort of rains on the LUA parade.
It really should not be that easy.


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[linney]

From what I have seen (which is not much) when the Administrator Account (used as intended by Microsoft?) kicks in during an emergency lock-out etc. it only allows the most basic use of that account and much of its access is still severely restricted.