Answered my own question,
and avoided the ugly fix;
1) Mapped a drive first
using the filer local admins permissions. i.e. net use
* \\<filer>\c$ /U:<filer> <password>
2) Used computer management
snap-in to add myself as a local administrator. My credentials were effectively
filer\Administrator. I believe this is something to do with the IPC$ browsing
credentials that are established by connecting to the share.
Important; Avoid editing lclgroups.cfg
in DOT < 6.1.2, it can panic the filer. See BUG ID 49404.
In reference to Mark's
suggestion;
6.4.1, the only command I
could find was useradmin, the man page for this command doesn't indicate
any group permissioning. Let me know if you find out another command that does
this.
Thanks,
Aaron
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From: Hill, Aaron
Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:52 PM
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Subject: How to add users to
Builtin\Administrators without Domain Admins Permissions?
At the moment, I can find only one way to do this and it is a little
"ugly". Does anyone have a simpler method?
Problem; I have just installed a new filer and I need to give myself Local
Administrator access. i.e. Add myself to the Builtin\Administrators local group
Mitigating Factor; I do not have Domain Admins rights. (Domain admins are
the only group that are added to a filer by default on a CIFS-only filer)
The good news; I have root access and have given myself cifs access to the
\\filer\C$ share
Current solution;
Manually edit the \etc\lclgroups.cfg file to include my SID\UID\GUID (or
whatever windows calls my unique identifier these days) under the
"Administrators" section. What is the easiest way to determine this
identifier?
What I know does not work;
1)
Computer Management Snap-in. I need the local Administrator rights that I
am trying to get and I cannot see a way to "Run As" the MMC as a
local filer administrator
Thanks,
Aaron
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