Problem adding domain user to local admin group?

[Guest]

This PC is joined correctly to a domain using the domain admin login. The
computer name is "AcctPay", and the domain name is "jecabs.local". The
server is a SBS 2003.

My problem is adding a domain user to a local group. In the select users
window under the locations "From this location:" the jecabs.local domain is
not accessable, only the local domain is listed. If I force the
domain\username I receive an error.

Any ideas why the PC will not show the domain. Once again I am logged in as
the domain admin.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

This PC is joined correctly to a domain using the domain admin login. The
computer name is "AcctPay", and the domain name is "jecabs.local". The
server is a SBS 2003.

My problem is adding a domain user to a local group. In the select users
window under the locations "From this location:" the jecabs.local domain is
not accessable, only the local domain is listed. If I force the
domain\username I receive an error.

Any ideas why the PC will not show the domain. Once again I am logged in as
the domain admin.

Try this:
1. Log in under a domain account.
2. Open a Command Prompt.
3. Type this command:
net localgroup administrators jecabs.local\AcctPay /add

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advise. It didn't work, nor would anything else I tried.

In the troubleshooting process I received a warning that the PC could not
find a list of users on the PDC. As I looked closer I found that the Gateway
IP address pointed to a router and not the PDC. Once I changed the gateway
to point to the PDC all the problems resolved themselves.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks for the feedback, even though it confuses me.
The Default Gateway address is supposed to point at your router,
not your PDC, because it is the router's task to process
all packets destined for an address outside the current
subnet. Did you perhaps mean "DNS Server"?