Re: My Win2000 power user broke when I installed Oracle

dold_at_79.usenet.us.com wrote in message news:<aj6ujf$fvp$1_at_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.

Since your problem seems more then just adding a user to the ORA_DBA group, My suggestion... Talk to your System/network administrator and have them resolve this issue for you.

//Rauf Sarwar Received on Mon Aug 12 2002 - 11:28:24 CDT