Can't open Users and Groups

Yeah guys, after I played around the guest account and added some parental controls to it, I can't open Users and Groups again in Syste Prefences
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When doing Get Info -> Permsissions on files/folders located on my File Server share, Owner and Group show as (unknown).
This means that the Finder can't find a match in the accounts/groups database for the numeric UID assigned to those files. Either the records associated to those accounts have been deleted, or the database is corrupt. In either case, you should restore a copy of it from backup.
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