Administrator rights on workstations giving full access?

[SteveAudus]

The Win NT worksations on my network, are not giving me full access to local resources when I log on as Administrator. It is fine on the server "Win NT Server 4"
but on the Wstations, I don't have the proper pivlege level to change the system time and if I try to add a printer
only network printer is available, My Computer is greyed out. Also if I try to install a piece of software e.g. Office, it tells me I do not have Administrator pivleges!!!

How can this be?

Any suggestions?

I have one work around which is to log on as administrator
on the local machine domain, but then I have to mess about entering passwords to get into my network resources.

Thanks for any help
Steve Audus
Network Manager
Chaucer School, Sheffield, UK

 

[Zelandakh]

When you log in as domain admin, you don't have admin level priviledges to the local machine.

Add the domain admin account to the local administrators group.

 

[SteveAudus]

The domain admin group is already in the administrators local group?

more help please

 

[Zelandakh]

Try putting the Administrator of the domain (i.e. your physical account) into the administrators local group).

 

[SteveAudus]

It is already there.

Thanks for your help on this.
Steve

 

[rjbj]

If you log into any workstation on your network using the Administrator account and the domain of the PDC you should have full access to that workstation even if you do not have a local administrator account on the workstation. If that does not work your problem is the Administrator account on the server.

 

[OzDog]

I have seen a similar problem on Win 2K Pro using NT 4 Domain Controllers. I have 2 admin accounts for myself, both copied from the same account, and one will give me admin rights to my pC, the other won't. Still can't work out why tho.

 

[Gagsy]

Change the local admin username and password to the same as the domain. Log on locally to the machine as this admin account. You will not be prompted for user id and password each time you then use a network resource.
Security is another issue though!!!!