Everyone Group Gone ! Help !

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Hello, kind of an urgent cry for help here...
I was having some difficulty with a user and stumbled
upon a possible problem. Can't find the Everyone group in
AD Users and Computers - Advanced Features ARE turned on.
I did a search from the root of the domain with no
results. Drilling down on the FILE SYSTEM of our servers,
the everone group IS still there. I found this KB that
implies that you won't be able to find "everyone" in AD
Users and Computers (2nd to last paragraph):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;292781&Product=win2000
However, in THIS KB, it sounds like "everyone" SHOULD be
found in AD U and C.
Not sure what to do here. Should I recreate the everyone
group from a DC using this command:
net localgroup users "nt authority\everyone" /add
Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks!

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

Everyone isn't a group, it is a security concept. If you can find it all
represented as an object in AD it will be a foreign security principal and its
SID is S-1-1-0.

You do not have to do anything if you can not find it in AD.

What is your real issue?

joe

 

[Guest]

Joe, thank you VERY MUCH for your response. I feel a
little bit better now, but Im still wondering why the 2nd
KB (below) says how to see it and modify it.

Anyway, the issue I was working on is that one of our
users CAN connect to the network using VPN but he can't
map any drives. DNS appears not to be working for just
this one user. I started checking around and couldn't
find everyone. Thought I used to be able to see it but I
guess I was mistaken. Thanks for your help!

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

You aren't reading the second article properly, it tells you how to add one of
those groups to another group, not how to view the membership of the "special"
groups.

In your shoes, I would do a network trace on the user's computer to find out
what exactly it is doing, maybe it is sending requests to the wrong server or
not at all or maybe the DNS server isn't responding properly, we could guess and
change settings all day. You need hard data.