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Dawdaw
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logging on as administrator on a user's windows vista computer
Windows Vista, Network Administrator, Windows Server 2003, User Permissions
how can i login on a user computer(windows vista) on windows server 2003 network. probably the user put certain permissions,how can i change that
ASKED: Sep 9 2009  6:26 PM GMT
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Create a new account in the domain and add it to the Domain Administrators group (gives a clean account to use). Now try it on the system. If the end user is an administrator on their box and removed Domain Administrators from the local administrators group, you have an issue and a rogue user.

You can create a GPO to enforce the Domain Administrators group is a member of the local administrators group. Create and apply the GPO so that the computer's object has the policy applied. Either reboot the system or wait for the GPO refresh. Then log into the system using your Domain Administrator's ID.

See what your company's policies are on modification of systems and determine if policy enforcement action is required. You may need to work with leadership to create policies if they do not exist.

NOTE: There are other tricks to prevent you from logging into the system. You may have to reload the system and work on policy enforcement.

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You need to know the local administrator password to login to the machine. If you are on a domain, you can use the domain administrator account to login as well.
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Dawdaw   205 pts.  |   Sep 9 2009  6:58PM GMT

im using the domain administartor account,but i cant log in.

in the login box there are 2 options:this computer or the domain

in both i cant log in as an administartor,only as a user

how can i shange this setting,in windows vista and xp

 

Labnuke99   26290 pts.  |   Sep 9 2009  7:17PM GMT

Is the computer a valid member of the domain? Check in AD Users and Computers and be sure that it is a valid object.

 

Dawdaw   205 pts.  |   Sep 9 2009  7:24PM GMT

ya it is.
actually this is happening on some of the copmuters network not all of them.

 

Labnuke99   26290 pts.  |   Sep 9 2009  8:08PM GMT

Did anyone apply special computer management GPO’s to these devices? Is there a firewall issue? Providing you know the local machine admin login credentials, you should be able to override their settings - if you continue to have problems logging in with domain credentials, I would remove it from AD and get the user to explain to you what they did before permitting the machine back online and accessing domain resources. There are ways to gain admin access to the computer using various boot disks out there but that is outside the scope of this site (we try not to provide hacking instructions here).

 

Carlosdl   29855 pts.  |   Sep 9 2009  8:20PM GMT

What error message do you get when trying to login to the domain ?

“in the login box there are 2 options:this computer or the domain
in both i cant log in as an administartor,only as a user”

Does that mean that you can login to the domain with a domain user account, but not with the domain administrator account ?

 

Dawdaw   205 pts.  |   Sep 9 2009  8:27PM GMT

exactly

 

Carlosdl   29855 pts.  |   Sep 9 2009  9:40PM GMT

what about the first question:

What error message do you get when trying to login to the domain ?

 

Fubar   1590 pts.  |   Sep 10 2009  8:10AM GMT

Login as user and then cmd — command promt and start the program that you need with run as.

 

Dawdaw   205 pts.  |   Sep 11 2009  4:20PM GMT

on vista computers when logging in as a user,it tells underneath that im logging to the domain,but when logging as an administrator,it tells that im logging to the specified vomputer’s name

on xp computer the error msg says that only the specified user(name of user on that computer) and administartor can log in

 

Michael Morisy   720 pts.  |   Sep 22 2009  12:20PM GMT

Dawdaw, was your question answered enough to get access?

 

Dawdaw   205 pts.  |   Sep 23 2009  3:49PM GMT

i would be glad to solve the VISTA part
help anyone!

thank u

 

Carlosdl   29855 pts.  |   Sep 23 2009  5:59PM GMT

I’m sure you will get better answers if you provide more details, and the exact error messages you are getting.

If you want to log in to the domain with the administrator account, you could use something like this for the user account:

<DOMAIN_NAME>Administrator.

Have you tried that ?

 

Carlosdl   29855 pts.  |   Sep 23 2009  6:18PM GMT

<DOMAIN_NAME>\Administrator.

 

Dawdaw   205 pts.  |   Sep 23 2009  9:02PM GMT

PERFECT

THANK U

 
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