Questions on Security

Hello:

I just finished installing windows 2003 Server. I set up a user, Venki, and
made him a member of all groups including Adminstrators.

But when I sign up as Venki, I am not even allowed to view the event log.
When I click on any of the logs, I get a message, "Unable to complete the
operation on "DNS Server". Access denied." This is the case on Application,
Security, System.

Can somebody tell me why?

Venki

Karl
Wed Dec 22 18:20:08 CST 2004

A member of *all* groups? Any chance one of those groups is denied the
right to access the logs?


"vvenk" <vvenk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D141DE94-5D94-427B-A120-92BA1E72563F@microsoft.com...
> Hello:
>
> I just finished installing windows 2003 Server. I set up a user, Venki,
and
> made him a member of all groups including Adminstrators.
>
> But when I sign up as Venki, I am not even allowed to view the event log.
> When I click on any of the logs, I get a message, "Unable to complete the
> operation on "DNS Server". Access denied." This is the case on
Application,
> Security, System.
>
> Can somebody tell me why?
>
> Venki

Roger
Thu Dec 23 01:31:36 CST 2004

So what else have you done after you "just finished" the install?
IIRC the predefined groups are not preconfigured for denying
anything, so you must have done more than just installed, define
account Venki, and then added group memberships for Venki.

--
Roger Abell

"vvenk" <vvenk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D141DE94-5D94-427B-A120-92BA1E72563F@microsoft.com...
> Hello:
>
> I just finished installing windows 2003 Server. I set up a user, Venki,
and
> made him a member of all groups including Adminstrators.
>
> But when I sign up as Venki, I am not even allowed to view the event log.
> When I click on any of the logs, I get a message, "Unable to complete the
> operation on "DNS Server". Access denied." This is the case on
Application,
> Security, System.
>
> Can somebody tell me why?
>
> Venki

vvenk
Thu Dec 23 07:45:01 CST 2004

Karl:

How stupid can I get? Yes, that probably was the reason. Once I eliminated
all the other group memberships, I was fine.

Thanks.

Venkat

"Karl Levinson, mvp" wrote:

> A member of *all* groups? Any chance one of those groups is denied the
> right to access the logs?
>
>
> "vvenk" <vvenk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D141DE94-5D94-427B-A120-92BA1E72563F@microsoft.com...
> > Hello:
> >
> > I just finished installing windows 2003 Server. I set up a user, Venki,
> and
> > made him a member of all groups including Adminstrators.
> >
> > But when I sign up as Venki, I am not even allowed to view the event log.
> > When I click on any of the logs, I get a message, "Unable to complete the
> > operation on "DNS Server". Access denied." This is the case on
> Application,
> > Security, System.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me why?
> >
> > Venki
>
>
>