GPEDIT.MSC not keeping settings

[Satnel]

Hey gang!!

I have a W2K SP3 server and whenever I change settings using GPEDIT.MSC,
they won't stay. For example, I run GPEDIT.MSC, I go to Computer
Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet
Explorer. There, I change "Make proxy settings per-machine" from NOT
CONFIGURED to ENABLED. Feeling quite chipper, I click the X to close
GPEDIT.

I immediately go back in to GPEDIT to check my new setting, and low and
behold, it's back to NOT CONFIGURED!!

Why? What gives? What can cause this?

TIA
Satnel

 

[Jeremy Moskowitz]

Check your permissions in c:\windows\sytem32\grouppolicy.

Make sure that the system and admins have full control.


--
Jeremy Moskowitz, MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CNA
Author of Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782128815
The Groundbreaking SYBEX book
in the Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series

 

[Satnel]

Check your permissions in c:\windows\sytem32\grouppolicy.

Make sure that the system and admins have full control.

OK. First off, don't know if it makes a difference, but I blew away the
"Administrator" account not long after install. This is my Citrix server
and I read something about getting rid of the account after creating
another account with Adminstrator authority. So that's what I did. Mind
you, on Workstations I normally just rename the Administrator account.
Could deleting this account be an issue?

Also, the account that was created with Administrator authority does in
fact have total security rights to c:\winnt\system32\grouppolicy. But so
does EVERYONE. How can I lock this down to only Administrators?

Satnel