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I created a local users account on a laptop that gets taken out of town by a
couple of different users. They're not very computer literate and they all
want to use the same desktop.

I created a user local to the computer that I anticipated to be used for all
involved. When I try and log on as that user local to that computer I'm
getting the message "Local profile does not allow for this user to login
interactively".

Then I logged on as the administrator went into the local policies, user
rights assignment and I can see that there's users assigned to login locally,
but the list is gray and won't allow me to modify it. This shocks me because
I'm logged in as the administrator.

Furthermore, I installed XP on this laptop myself with XP with SP2 CD. The
administrator should be able to do anything, I've never came across this
before. What's wrong with this picture? Any ideas?
 
Hi Penny, a disclainer first: I am not an expert. :-) However, recently I had
a simular experiance. Somehow an account, an administrator account no less,
was transformed into a "debugger" account, which took it off the welcome
screen, though it was still logged on. I knew the account was there, so I
went in with another administrator account and tried to access it in User
Accounts and it was also not listed there any longer. So, I went back out to
the welcome screen and hit Ctrl+Alt+Del twich which brought up the classic
logon screen. I then put in the user name and password and accessed the
desktop of that account. However, it would not allow any interaction with any
program at all, I received an "this profile does not have the permissions to
run this program".

So, I backed out of the accunt and went in with my other administrator
account and called up User passwords which is the XP 2000 version of User
Accounts. I called it up by clicking Start-Run-typing in cmd in the run box
then at the cmd line prompt typing in, 'control useraccounts2', without the
quotes and clicked Enter. This launched User passwords2. I then checked the
account status of all accounts on that computer and found both that
administrator account AND the hidden system administrator account was listed
as "debugger" with the system account listed as both administrator and
debugger. So, I clicked on each account and selected the proper designation
'administrator' from the drop downl list. I accessed this by highlighting an
account and clicking Properties at the bottom of the screen. I then clicked
on Group membership and as they were both Administrator Accounts, the Other
radial dial button was clicked which enabled the drop down list to select the
proper Group Membership. I selected the Administrators for both, clicked Ok.
Clicked OK to exit out and the account was back on the welcome screen and
good as new from then on.

I never discovered how these accounts were changed, I posted a question here
but nobody answered it so I am assuming nobody had a answer. I did a full
scan with my very good Internet Security Suite and found nothing wrong. It
has been running without any problems since this occurred.

I suggest trying to access the account in question via the user passwords2
box like I did and see if you can fix it there. Be really carefull in dealing
with this box as any change you make is immediant and can have serious
consequences. Good luck and I hope you get this fixed soon.
 
I tried control useraccounts2 at the command prompt and it didn't do
anything. I tried logging in as administrator local to the machine, and as
administrator to the domain and still nothing happens when I type control
useraccounts2 at the command prompt.

In the control panel, under user accounts the administrator accounts are in
the administrator group; and the user that I created for the sake of having a
common desktop is a regular user.

There's something odd about this machine, I can't quite put my finger on it.
 
Penny, I am really sorry, but I miss wrote the program name in the first
section of my post. I didn't realize my mistake until you posted back. At the
command prompts type control userpasswords2 with a space between control and
user and not spaces between userpasswords2. Then click Enter and the dialog
box will open up on top of the black command prompt window. Now you will be
able to access this program. Sorry for misleading you there. Down lower in my
first post is the proper way to enter this information. Good luck and I hope
it fixes your problem as it did mine.

Seree
 
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