Operator Incorrectly Prompted for Administrator Password
  
PSS ID Number: Q133477
Article last modified on 08-04-1995
 
3.50
 
WINDOWS
 

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SUMMARY
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When account operators attempt to add users with the Client Administration
utilities that shipped on the Windows NT 3.5 server CD, they receive a
prompt for an administrators password. Even if an administrative password
is enter it is not accepted.
 
WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem, make the Account Operators an Administrators
or administrate the domain from a computer running Windows NT workstation
or server.
 
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. We
are researching this problem and will post new information here in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
 
KBCategory: kbnetwork kbbug3.50
KBSubcategory: ntgeneral
Additional reference words: 3.50 wfw wfwg
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Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1995.
