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I add a user into my Active Directory. Make the settings in "Properties" the same as every other user in the AD. When the user goes and logs into her workstation she is not able to run the application that we are running on the network. She need to have Administrator access on the workstation to be able to run the app. What have I not done to allow the user to work on the computer as an administrator?
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you should add the user in local administrators group on her workstation.
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I created a user with the same name as the AD name and added that to the local Administrators group. That didn't work. What do you mean by - "Set her as an administrator locally"  "addthe user in local administrators group."
When the user is logged into the domain she is not showing up in the Users and Groups in Manage under My Computer.
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when you add the user to the group you need to make sure you add the user as Domain\Username or Username@domain.com (or .local depending on your domain) also make sure you log the user off the computer and back on.
when you go to her name in the manage under my computers, it says she is a member of comptuername\administrators or whatever?

that is all it takes to install a program locally


yes i meant add to the local group administrators when i said set her to admin
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I am unable to add any user to the admin group. it won't accept domain\user and comes back with the error Name Not Found at this location. The location is the workstation name.
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The user, newly added to the domain, cannot login to any workstation and run the software. As said above they have to be added to the local administrtors group. That is what I can't seem to do. Yes other user can login and run the app. I have gone to other workstations and cannot add the user to the administrators group. When i try to add the users to admin the dialog does not get the domain. And I have logged in as a domain user with local administrator access and logged in as the local administrator, nothin' doin'. There is no Group Policy in the domain other than the default, I assume because I don't know.
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paulmacd:
Where it breaks down in is the step - In the Locations dialog, select Entire Directory. The only location that comes up is the local computer.
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gpresult /r did not work
Are you logged in as a user in the domain?  If the domain doesn't show up as a location, either the user isn't logged in to the domain or the computer isn't a member of the domain (and so the user isn't logged in to the domain).
yeah it sounds like you are not on the domain, liek paul said , if you cant run gpresult its probably because you are not on the domain.
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paulmacd:
Yes I am logged in as a member of the domain and an administrator og the local PC. The computer in is the domain computers group. So if the environment is not in the domain there is somthing, matbe on the server, not working as should be.
Maybe, but it sounds really odd (and maybe really bad) given it's not just a problem with the computer but evidently also a problem with the user.  This points to a possible problem with Active Directory itself, but what that might be, I don't know.
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paulmacd:
Thanks for your help.
The problem turned out to be on the server with the dns setup. There was none. The ISP dns was kinda hard coded into the router DHCP and handed down to the clients because the router is setup to dhcp. So the dns on the server, running Win srvr 2003, was not setup to give domain information and the ISP dns did not have our local info. After fixing the server dns setup  the domain comes up in the Add User part of the Administrators group on the local computer. And a group policy for the Domain Users group was setup to add the Domain Users group to the local Administrators group. After I learn a little more about Group Policies I will lock down the users access to the work stations.
Also can you suggest a way of distributing points here? I not real sure how to do that.