Access denied on event viewer 1

[mike722]

Hi,

Upgraded an NT4 PDC to Windows 2003 DC. Gone into event view, but can't look at any logs accept the security logs. I get Access Denied for all the others. I am logged on as an administrator. Anyone know whats going on??> Brand new win 2003 install.

Mike

 

[CEOMouse]

Had the same problem. Apparently 2003 takes users in general NT4 groups and puts them into "Guest" groups in the AD. My administrator account was in "everyone" and ended up in "Domain Guests". Guests are explicitly denied access to the certain event logs. It also made "Domain Guest" my primary group, and thus I had to correct that before I could remove the account from the guest group. Here's what I found from MS:

"Cause: Your account has been added to the Guests group on the target computer, and is also a member of the Administrators group.

Solution: Remove your account from the Guests group on the target computer:"

Hope that helps.

 

[mike722]

That would explain it, thanks CEOmouse,

Mike