Help, User Rights Assignment in Local Policies keep resetting

[oozzzii]

Hello, this is happening on a Windows XP Professional, SP2 fully
patched. It used to share files on the network but suddenly it stopped
doing so. After some reading I found that the User Rights Assignment
propery was missing the required values. So I added the accounts and
this allowed the computer to share files again.

This would work for a few minutes but five minutes later computer
trying to access the share could not because the settings were blank
again. I repeated the process of adding the values to User Rights
Assignment and they keep resetting.

Has anyone encountered this problem? How were you able to solve it or
work around it? Thank you.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hello, this is happening on a Windows XP Professional, SP2 fully
patched. It used to share files on the network but suddenly it stopped
doing so. After some reading I found that the User Rights Assignment
propery was missing the required values. So I added the accounts and
this allowed the computer to share files again.

This would work for a few minutes but five minutes later computer
trying to access the share could not because the settings were blank
again. I repeated the process of adding the values to User Rights
Assignment and they keep resetting.

Has anyone encountered this problem? How were you able to solve it or
work around it? Thank you.

A program or service that's running on your computer could be
resetting the rights. Are you running non-Microsoft networking,
security, or VPN programs?

Try terminating running programs and services one-by-one, setting the
correct rights assignments, and seeing if they get reset. That should
help you find the cause.
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[oozzzii]

No, using purely MS networking tools, No VPN involved. And I'm using
McAfee Security Center but I have set it up to allow all trafic on the
private subnet.

I'm going to try running to spyware detection software..hopefully that
will hep.

Thanks for the tips.

 

[oozzzii]

THANK YOU for all the help...

A worm was causing the problem..a search for SeNetworkLogonRight
yielded better results, including the following link:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html

Reseting the SeNetworkLogonRight policy is just one of the things that
W32.Spybot.Worm does. Workstation is back to normall after getting rid
of this worm.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

THANK YOU for all the help...

A worm was causing the problem..a search for SeNetworkLogonRight
yielded better results, including the following link:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html

Reseting the SeNetworkLogonRight policy is just one of the things that
W32.Spybot.Worm does. Workstation is back to normall after getting rid
of this worm.

Thanks for finding and reporting the solution! I'm sure that it will
help a lot of people.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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