Re: My Win2000 power user broke when I installed Oracle

Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

: You need to install Oracle connected as the *local* administrator on
: that server, so not using *any* domain account, as you need to create
: a *local* ora_dba group, which is done properly when you connect as
: local administrator. And, as far as I know, that's in the manual.
: So your error is trying to be 'smart' and not following the manual.

That is what I did. I logged in as administrator on the local machine.

I now have a local ORA_DBA group, and a local ORA_OPER group. I don't seem to have any problem with Oracle. I have added users, created tables, "worked" with the tables.

My problem is that now, my corp/cdold login is no longer in the local "power user group", and cannot do some things that require changes to the registry. I have a program that wants to make configuration changes to the serial port, and it cannot. Another program wants to save configuration to the registry and could not. I now have a modified version of that program which works, by making changes to the CURRENT_USER keys instead of ROOT. I can still run regedit and make changes, but I can't make any changes in Device Manager. The local ORA_OPER contains corp/cdold, Administrator, and Guest. The local ORA_DBA contains no entries.
The local "Power Users" group contains \S-1-5-21-...500 The local Administrators group contains the same \S...-512 and administrator.

From the Win2000 resource kit, WHOAMI /GROUPS shows that I am part of the "BUILTIN\Power Users" group, and the "MyPCName\ORA_OPER" group BUILTIN is the actual value shown.
MyPCName is not the real value, nor is CORP. I am identified as corp\cdold S-1-5-21-...-4394

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