Run As... not functioning

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Hello,
A co-worker cannot use the Run As... command on her XP Pro SP2 system. It
appears on submenus, but when she selects it, the hourglass briefly appears
but nothing happens. It seems like an account issue as other people can use
Run As... on her system but I'm not sure exactly what to look for. The
Secondary Logon service is running.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

cheers /td
 
Try from a command prompt and see if there is a message. My user name has a space so the user part is enclosed in quotes. Error numbers can be looked up

net helpmsg <decimal number>

runas /?

eg

runas "/user:serenity\david candy" notepad
 
The user reports that using the command line actually allows her to execute
Run As... Thanks!

Any idea why the GUI Run As... would hang? System has a fresh XP SP2 image.
 
I should add that she needs to use Run As... for the AD Users & Computers
console, which apparently you can't do via command line runas (says dsa.msc
is not a valid Win32 app). Thanks!
 
%SystemRoot%\system32\mmc.exe "%systemroot%\system32\something.msc"

or

start something.msc
 
Cool, yes. Using the below command got it working:

runas /user:companydomain\domainadmin "mmc %windir%\system32\dsa.msc"

I really appreciate your help on that. If anyone has ideas as to the GUI
issue, I'd welcome suggestions, but at least now we have a workaround.

Thanks again, David!

cheers /td
 
Ah, another wrinkle to add - the user just informed me that other people
actually CANNOT use the Run As... via the GUI submenu on her system. She was
mistaken before.
 
tdog said:
Hello,
A co-worker cannot use the Run As... command on her XP Pro SP2 system. It
appears on submenus, but when she selects it, the hourglass briefly
appears
but nothing happens. It seems like an account issue as other people can
use
Run As... on her system but I'm not sure exactly what to look for. The
Secondary Logon service is running.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

cheers /td
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