re: "Full access" permissions don't work...
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 5:32 am
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Curt R
(769 messages posted)
Actually, there's nothing wrong with renaming the administrator account. It's
just one more security measure. Everyone knows the default admin account in Windows
is "administrator". Renaming that account will prevent brute force password crack
attempts on that account. In fact, in the NT 4.0 and earlier days, the default password
for the Administrator account was "admin". Something else everyone knew. At least
with 2000, MS finally got rid of that default password (not a great idea). Having
said that, I agree this person messed something up if the local admin account can't
make any changes. I sure hope this is a test environment so you can reinstall and
start over.
On Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:06 am, TOASTER wrote:
>Question 1 "I renamed the domain administrator account" Is this the main admin account
>on the server and if so why would you want to rename it?
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>Question 2 "If I log in locally with the local administrator account, it won't let
>me change anything either" When you say locally do you mean the server? if so then
>it looks like you have screwed things up. You should never mess about with the main
>admin account. Am I missing something? Yes you should of created a new user on the
>server with full admin rights and used this account to log in with on the client
>machine...
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