Hello,
I have a Sharepoint Services 3.0 SP2 website I created recently, and I am trying to add users to the builtin Sharepoint Visitors Group, and some users will not resolve their name. It keeps giving me the error saying "No exact match was found". If I do a directory search for all sales managers, by just searching the name "sales" which should come back with 70 accounts, only 12 will show up. They are all in Active Directory, I can search for and find them from within the Outlook GAL, and I have compared the AD user account of one of the working versus one of the users not showing up, and I cannot see any differences. This is a Server 2003 domain. Thanks.
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First Question: I am using AD groups. I add the "Sales Manager" AD group to the sharepoint visitors group, and the user is a member of that AD group, however still cannot access the site. So then I tried adding her account just by itself, and had the problems described above.
Second Question: They are all in the same OU, and just members of the "Sales Managers Global Security group and the "domain users" group, and a sales managers distribution group.
I still cannot find where you are talking about. Is this a functionality that doesn't exist in sharepoint services 3.0? I have attached screen shots of my central admin pages.
Central Administration Operations Tab
Central Administration Application Management Tab
you see it here. make sure you have full permissions to the ssp when you loged in. log in with an account that has ssp permissions.
ssp1
I called Microsoft and opened up a case with them... and we figured out the issue.
First, the "Shared Services Administration" section in Central Administration does not exist in sharepoint services 3.0, only MOSS.
Second, the reason why only some accounts from AD were showing up and resolving was because in IIS\Application Pools\Sharepoint - MySite\Properties\Identity
Third, There were errors in the event log saying:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
Event Category: Gatherer
Event ID: 2436
Date: 11/6/2009
Time: 8:20:12 AM
User: N/A
Computer: Server
Description:
The start address <sts3://server/contentdbid=
Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search'
Details:
The item could not be accessed on the remote server because its address has an invalid syntax. (0x80041208)
We were able to fix this by opening up a command prompt and changing the directory to here:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Webserver Extensions\12\Bin
and ran this command:
stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart
He had me run it 4 or 5 times just to be sure, then wait 5 minutes to see if the event errors stopped, which they did. Searching on the site now works.
Thanks so much for everyones help!
Business Accounts
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by: OestoneePosted on 2009-11-03 at 13:27:58ID: 25733940
My first question would be why aren't you using AD groups to manage your sharepoint permissions?
The second question would be what other groups do these not working users belong too? Any restricted groups? Are they all in the same OU?