Win2K AD account rights don't carry through on XP Pro

[Steve]

I setup a Win2k Active Directory Server with most of the
defaults, except for passwords and accounts. When I
attached a Windows 2000 Pro machine to the Domain I could
log into the Win2K Pro box with a Domain admin account
and I have local admin rights. I could add other Domain
accounts to local groups on the Win2K box.

When I attached a XP Pro box (the same way) I can log in
with a domain admin account but I don't have local admin
rights. When I try to add domain accounts to the local
group I can't even see the Domain Controller accounts. I
can access files on the Domain Controller but it's under
something like a domain user rights rather than admin
rights. I think the problem may be somewhere in Policies
but I'm not sure.

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Ray at]

Do you have the DC set as your DNS server on the XP machine?

Also, if you log on to your XP machine as a local admin and enter this at
the command prompt (cmd.exe), what is the response?

net localgroup administrators "NameOfYourDomain\domain admins" /ADD

Ray at home

 

[Roger Abell]

Sounds like you do not have DNS configured correctly
on the XP client machine.