Error: Unable to display the user selection dialog. (null)

[Roshan Choudhury]

Dear All,
I am facing the problem in a Windows 2000 server(which is
not the domain contriller) which is a member server of a
domain.
I am facing a problem while i want to add/change the
user's permission for a particular file or folder.
My action are like this:
1.Right Click on the file/folder.
2.Selecton of "Properties" menu item.
3.Selection of "Security Tab".
4.Clicking on the "Add" button
at this point I am getting the error:
"Unable to display the user selection dialog. (null)"
and I am totally unable to change any security options for
any of the folder/file of that server.
Please help me in this regard ASAP.
Thanking you.
Roshan Choudhury

 

[Miha Pihler]

What permission do you have on the system or domain when you are trying to
perform this action?

 

[pigwhistler]

You should also find that Local Users and Groups is Red X'd out when you try to access it. Check to see if you have activeds.tlb in your %SystemRoot%\System32 folder - if not then copy it from another w2k machine and everything will be fixed.

 

[breceivemail]

please check your riched32.dll file in system32 directory. it must be 3.5KB and you can copy from original xp cd-rom. try and enjoy!