Local Policies Disabled

[Guest]

I have a machine in XP SP2, the owner had been working in differents domains
(Active Directory 2000/2003). Now in the office the machine has a IBM
applications which checks the security configuration of policies. The
application results said: " user without password " . When I checked the
operating system I could set a password to the user (administrator renamed).
I checked the Group Policies and I could see the "Minimun password lenght"
disable, well a lot of policies appear disable. As administrator I can not
modify the policies.
What is going on ? How can I to set up this policies to default ? and Why
Administrator user can not modify this items ?

Thanks a lot

 

[Steven L Umbach]

If the computer is NOT in a workgroup then it still has policies applied
from the domain. If a security policy setting is applied at the domain level
then you will not be able to modify it locally. That is normal. If the
computer no longer needs to be a member of a domain then logon as an
administrator and change it to be a workgroup computer in system properties
and then it can only be logged onto via local user accounts.

Steve