Re: My Win2000 power user broke when I installed Oracle

From: <dold_at_79.usenet.us.com>
Date: 12 Aug 2002 00:13:35 GMT
Message-ID: <aj6ujf$fvp$1@samba.rahul.net>

: On 10 Aug 2002 18:36:13 GMT, dold_at_79.usenet.us.com wrote:

:>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

Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

: If you are in the local administator group you should be capable to
: use the user administrator for domains (part of the administrative
: tools) to readd copr/cdold to the local power user group.

Pardon me. The error of my ways has become clear, between your post and other emails. I am not connected to the network anymore. I haven't been for several months, and prior to the install of Oracle, that had not been a problem. I should have mentioned that in my posting.

I cannot add corp/cdold to the local power user group because the user-add tool cannot connect to the domain controller, and simply won't allow me to add that entry.

Lack of connection to the domain controller may be the entirety of my problem, or perhaps the retained domain policies are conflicting with my Oracle installation of the ORA_DBA group, although corp/cdold is part of the ORA_USER group. Maybe that was already true, prior to my installation of Oracle... I didn't look. I only used Oracle via one application while connected to the network, and I had forgotten that. I don't even know the names of the servers there.

As I don't expect that I will ever connect to that domain again, I believe that what I want to do now is remove this machine from that domain. then I could create a local user called cdold, copying settings as needed, and abandon the corp/cdold identity.

I can locate some text on adding myself to a domain, but none on removing myself from a domain.

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Clarence A Dold - dold_at_email.rahul.net
                - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA.

Received on Sun Aug 11 2002 - 19:13:35 CDT