Credential conflict

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Tom Godfrey

I'm trying to give administrative right to a user on a
W2K Pro workstation. When using the wizard to add the
user to the Admin group I'm getting an err msg:
"Your compuser could not be joined to the domain because
the following erro has occured:
The credentials supplied conflict with and existing set
of credientials"
I can login in as the network admin and as the user but
can't give that user admin access. W2K Pro is running SP4.
Any suggestions ?

Thanks,

Tom
 
That error message looks more like you trying to join a
computer to a domain than elevate a users priveliges

Is the workstation part of a domain, is the user a domain
user? If the workstation is not a part of the domain then
it will not be able to retrieve the users details.

The error looks like you are trying to join the computer
to a domain, but the computer name exists on the domain.
If the computers name is also the same as a computers
name that exists on the domain then you will not be able
to join the domain for obvious reasons.
 
The wrkstation was named after a former user, whose
name have been removed from the domain. Is this where
the problem is ? Can I remove the computer name from
domain ?
 
Each computer account on the domain must be unique.

As long as there are no other computer accounts on the
domain with the same name you should be fine. What I
would do in your situation is simply rename the
workstation with a unique name. This will then enable you
to add the machine to the domain with a unique name.
Alternatively, locate the machine name in Users and
Computers and (as long as you are SURE that it is the
same machine) delete the account from the domain... Allow
time for the change to replicate to your other DCs and
then try to add the machine to the domain once more.

However, the problem started with trying to give a user
Admin priveliges, so this query has got kinda sidetracked.

Is this user to be Local Admin or Domain Admin? I assume
it is the former based on the question.

If you can connect to the machine successfully over the
network and you wish the user to be a local admin for
that machine, then simply 'Manage' the machine via
Computer Management tool and add the user to the
Administrator group. (Obviously, if the user is a domain
user then the machine will need to be a domain member in
order to retrieve a list of domain users and groups)
 
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