Didn't give myself administrator rights on set up
I've been trying to partition my hard drive so I can load Windows on my new iMac. When I put in my administrator's name and password, I see the word "Authenticating" appear with a rotating multicolor wheel. This goes on indefinitely -- 15 minutes. I assume the administrator's name is the one I put in during set up (first name and last name). What am I doing incorrectly?
I called Apple regarding my problem. I was able to fix the problem using the very helpful instructions provided by the Apple technician. The problem arose when I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. When I received my computer three days ago, it came loaded with Tiger, but the box contained the Leopard CD. If this happens to any one else, and he indicated it has happened sometimes when upgrading, I recommend calling Apple (1-800-275-2273) immediately. I called a couple of minutes after AppleCare opened (6 a.m. PT), and I had a two-minute wait, which is quite unlike the 40-50 minute wait I'd have with Microsoft.
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Cannot access folders and files even with Administrator rights
Hours & days gone trying to solve niggling issues that Microsoft cannot fix (using the built-in diagnosis tools/compatibility options/MS promises to advise when solutions found). But I am stopped from progress by restrictions to folder & file access preventing self-diagnosis. Why are administrator rights not effective? How do I as Administrator give myself access rights? If not available how do I return to XP and retrieve the cost of Windows 7? Note that the PC compatibility test tool for Win7 upgrade from XP noted no significant problems!
It appears that these are symbolic links and that WIn7 hasn't got the wherewithal to follow the symlink to the real folder to assess the security settings. - Hence everyone's frustration.
For those of us who are extremely technical, we'd like to be able to remove and re-create a link as needed to test a scenario...
I've done it for years with Altos Xenix, SCO Xenix, SCO OS/5, AIX and Linux from Caldera 2.2 through todays versions... Windows has been moving in a direction to incorporate more *nix like concepts as they move away from their DOS orientation, but in the process
they have focused on the "general user" at the expense of the "administrative user" (i.e. "root" in *nix)
I've always wanted to try a stripped down, non-backwards compatible, Windows Server. I'm sure it could be made admin-friendly and allow push updates without spending thousands of dollars on push-update software mechanisms... But so far, they've missed the boat.
I have 1 Win7Prof PC at home, 1 Mac and 2 Debian systems. Both the Win and OS/X systems make it very hard to administer/customize/etc. the OS. The 2 Debian systems give more bang for the buck and don't inhibit the root user at all once you make 2 changes (using
"su root" as a user) in /etc/pam.d to allow logging into the desktop as root.
We can always hope MS will see those of us who recommend server platforms as a market at some point. (Wouldn't it be awesome to have basic *nix constructs available for admins? And "bash" vs. "cmd"?)
I certainly don't see any need to utilize Windows except in those cases where some vendor/site is compatible with MS/IE only. There are a few of them and I rail on them constantly to be platform independent. Our software is. It takes a lot of work, but
we use Apache/MySQL/PHP to deliver our medical practice management application from any of the *nix-OS/X-WinServer server platforms to anyone who has Chrome/FireFox/Safari/Opera/IE or
similar browsers. But administering the server platform under Windows is about 5 times more time intensive to install and about 10 times more time intensive to maintain than *nix platforms.
We have about 200 Linux servers we are able to support with 4 staff. We have about 50 Windows servers we are able to support with 4 staff.
With numbers like that, I don't see us leaning toward Windows in the foreseeable future. -
Windows XP Administrator rights with Itunes
Help please... is it possible to use Itunes in Windows XP without being an administrator? My daughter and I both have Ipods and have different logon names with XP, I currently have to give her Administrator rights to update her Ipod and this is quite dangerous as she knows little about pc's and likes to experiment!
hp pavilion f1904 Windows XPitunes 7 gave me the same problem on my windows xp machine. before i upgraded to itunes 7, my ipod is recognized by itunes 6 when i dock it.
itunes 7 cannot see my ipod. Windows XP recognize my ipod when i pulg it in so I know my Ipod was not broken.
I went to apple store for some help and they are NO HELP. they only support Mac based Ipods. And suggested I purchase the phone support... YOU DONT NEED TO SPEND THAT MONEY if you paid for an IPOD.. it shoudl be working and if they released a new upgrade on softwares, it should be working on any machine they claim they support.
I tried puggin in my Ipod on an apple based machine with Itunes 7 and it worked.
I gave up Itunes 7 on my windows xp machine and re-installed the old Itunes 6. And it works FINE. -
I ran the download and when it got to the end where it should launch it told me that I didn't have sufficient administrator rights to complete the download.
The Lion redemption code can only be used in the App Store application found in 10.6.6, and higher Macs.
You can't download it from a PC or a phone. -
MSI Group Policy install failing because of administrator rights problem
I have succesfully installed the desktop manager software 4.6 on my PC using the MSI from the CD. I am a domain administrator, when I try to install the same MSI on other users in the domain through group policy who are not administrators the software will not install. I have checked and the policy is definately being applied and it says on logon that the Blackberry Desktop Manager software is being installed but no icon or program group is created.
I don't want to give users administrator rights as the users are not allowed to install software on their PC. Normally software installs through group policy without a problem. I don't want to have to go around to each PC and install manually if I can avoid it.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Solved!
Go to Solution.Someone else would really need to answer this, but i have my own simple solution we use here.
Create a share file eg //138.218.137.22 etc etc for the user to go to. In here save a copy of the desktop manager. Get them to click and drag it to their desktop and install the file from there. (do not install the file directly from the shared drive)
Is the cd version won't work, get the install.exe from the blackberry site..
If your issue is resolved, put a checkmark in the green box that contains the resolution.
OR
If it was just/or also really helpful - Give it a Kudos.. Go on Mate.. Help the rest of the clueless blackberry user world find their answer too..
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Photoshop CS5(64Bit): "You don't have permission to save to this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission." I am the administrator and give myself permission. What can I do to save the file? This is the user's PC, licensed PS CS5 software and Win 7 OS.
Temporarily save to another folder, until you figure it out.
Just because you are the owner and are the sole administrator, does not always guarantee that you have permission. There are several folders that you can not access no matter how hard you try. As for folders in your document folder, it is more likely a basic permission setting that took on permissions of a copied file. Some folders and files are set to a child/parent default setting, meaning the child folder/file (the one you are accessing) has the identical settings of its parent and when the parent changes, so does the child.
You can alter the parent or the child folder/file.
Right click on the folder/file select properties.
Click on the security tab.
Click on each of the group names and see what permissions are set.
You can then edit a group if necessary.
If it will not allow it, you may need to use the advanced button to create a new copy of the group which should happen when you alter its settings (In other words, you don't have to physically create the copy, it does it for you when you OK the changes)
The administrator should have full access to the folder in the documents folder, if you are listed as an associate of the administrator group your name should also be listed there with full access. The System should also have full access.
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When in Windows 7 (while using bootcamp) I am able to see my personal files in my Mac partition. When I try to access them I am denied access, it tells me that I need permission from the administrator. How do I give myself permission to access files between the two partitions, Mac/Windows7?
When in Windows 7 (while using bootcamp) I am able to see my personal files in my Mac partition. When I try to access them I am denied access, it tells me that I need permission from the administrator. How do I give myself permission to access files between the two partitions, Mac/Windows7?
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I am trying to install itunes for my mobile, and I keep getting the message "You do not have administrator rights, please contact the system administrator to preform an update." I have it set as adminstrator as the user. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate. Help please?
Thanks, but I've done that several times & it still says I need administraive privileges. I had itunes installed with no problems until I did the latest update. After that it just disappeared, so I tried reinstalling. Now I can't sync my phone. This is so frustrating!
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Warning... dumb question ahead: Tech guy who set up my Macbook Pro didn't give me my password info, and yes I forgot to ask for it. Didn't need it till I decided to finally download a Flash Player upgrade, which won't complete process without my Mac (Admin?) password. Suggestions anyone?
Warning... dumb question ahead: Tech guy who set up my Macbook Pro didn't give me my password info, and yes I forgot to ask for it. Didn't need it till I decided to finally download a Flash Player upgrade, which won't complete process without my Mac (Admin?) password. Suggestions anyone?
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Give a windows domain user local administrative rights?
I'm familiar with managing servers/computers in a windows environment, and I can't seem to find a tool to do something similar in OS X 10.5. I'm getting ready to ship a macbook pro to an employee who will be authenticating against our active directory windows domain for login. The machine is already setup to allow this (and I'm able to log in using my network credentials currently). However, I'd like to also give the user administrative rights so he can install software as he sees fit. In windows, I would just goto the groups section and add the user by typing in his account as : Domain\user and it would add him to that group. I haven't been able to find anything similar with the MacBook so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Also.. if this needs to be in another section of the forum, please let me know.
Thanks!
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No Administrative Rights in v6.0 for Level 10?
2 questions:
1) I have delivered my first upgrade of Lookout to v6.0.1 for a customer.
Two days later I go to add another person to level 10 and find I do not have administrative rights to do this.
I get a pop-up window that tells me this.
Bad news, I set myself up as Level 10, like always, and now I can't get in to change users?
I mean, like with level 10 I should be able to do *anything*.
2) I cannot find where I get to change the default user variable save period. It's default of 60min is too long and I need to drop it to 10 or so.
It is on the System page in 3.8 "Save State Files every: xxx min". But no such luck in 6.
System is a new PC with XP ProWell the forum administrator has prevailed on me to relay the answers.
1) Obviously I did not give myself full administrator functions in Lookout when I set myself up, level 10 doesn't cut it any more. The name being the same as the windows terminology led me to look to the windows administrator function. I wonder what the ghosts at Georgetown would say now, it doesn't come on a single floppy diskette any more guys.
2) The default user save period is called "state", I knew that. Alls you do is search on "state" and not "save" or "variable" or anything else, and when you do figure out the magic word is "state", you find it has migrated from "Options\System" to "File\Modify Service".
Oh that's much more logical...
It's so easy when you know how.
I will now put on my dunces cap and stand in a corner.
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Question on hoe to delegate administration rights (BOE XI 3.1)
Hi,
I'm working through the admin document from SAPs site for this product and see that I can delegate administration rights to a user or group. This is something I would find usefull in my company as we have geographically disparate offices and can't always do the work when it is first requested. The idea would be to set up an admin group in each of the offices and add a user to the group to manage things like new starters, group assignments and scheduling on behalf of someone else.
The admin guide is a little vague when it comes to this particular section as it explains what can be done but not how to do it. I have been testing this feature to see how easy it is to set up and I can't get it working.
Question: What rights do I need to configure to permit a user permissions to add a new user and against which object(s) should they be set?
Thanks,
MikeI'm doing something like this. For each department, I've created an Admin user group. These user groups are sub-groups of the administrators group so they get the same rights as the Administrator.
I then go through other parts of the CMC and give these admin sub-groups view only access to things like servers and other areas of the CMC where I don't want them messing around. They have full control over their department folders, department user groups, and users, but nothing else in the system. It's a pain to set it up, but it's worth it in the long run.
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Sharing administrator rights with a contact in a g...
I've set up a popular group chat used by lots of contacts at work. When I am on vacation, my boss wants to be able to add or delete people from this group chat. But I'm not sure how to share with him the rights to do this. How do you share group chat administrative rights with another contact?
Yes please - I'm having the same issue. How do I give another member administration rights?
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Packagemaker 3.0.3. administration rights?!
Hello,
I have just finished implementing my new application and I am now aiming at making the installer look and feel nice. All the cosmetic features are clear and intuitive so I had no problem with them. What I do have problem with is setting the "administration rights". To be more clear: I would like to give the user a chance to install my application (/myAppFolder/myApp.app) anywhere on the harddisk he chooses. When the chosen destination is the user's home directory everything works just fine (the application is installed in /myAppFolder/myApp.app). However, if any other location is chosen only the folder '/myAppFolder/' is installed and nothing in it! I checked the option that requires the user to enter the administrator password, so that should not be the problem. I guess my problem is that I do not have the slightest clue how the UNIX user rights are distributed, so I spent 4 hours yesterday packing/unpacking and trying different combinations of rights for both 'myAppFolder/' and the application package itself(myApp.app). I even made them both and all of their subfolders and subfiles world readable/writeable but nothing changes the fact that if 'myAppFolder/' is anywhere else other than the current user's home directory nothing is installed in this folder. I am a little frustrated here, I have found many tutorials and read a great deal of them but nothing written there seems to help. Please, if anyone has a suggestion or a set of rules that should be satisfied in order to install something on a UNIX based OS, just post it here I will really appreciate it-.
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- artOf...artOf... wrote:
1). Open the PM, input my company name, input a title for the install setup.
2). In the configuration tab: Check all the check boxes named 'Install Destination:'
If you are installing an application, the only thing you want here is System Volume. I understand you want to give users as much flexibility as possible, but PackageMaker just can't handle it. If you have some preference or database that could go into either /Library or ~/Library, you can pick System Volume or User Home Directory. If you have "something else", you can choose Volume Selected by User. Applications should go into System Volume. PackageMaker just gets so confused on these options that you will never figure it out - at least I know I can't.
3). Edit Interface(cosmetic stuff)
I would put this off until last.
4). I have a folder 'MyAppFolder' and an application MyApp.app inside that folder, I issue the command 'sudo chown -R root:admin MyAppFolder' and just to be sure the same command on the MyApp.app package.
You don't have to do it twice. The "-R" option will do do that for you.
5). I drag and drop 'MyAppFolder' in the 'Contents' tab of my PM setup.(here I am not sure, I drag and drop the folder containing the application so I am assuming I don't have to drop the application separatedly.)
You can do either one, but you would have to change the Contents -> "Include root in package" setting.
6). Select the newly dragged folder and choose 'Configuration' for it. Check 'Allow custom location' and set the destination to '/Applications'.
Don't check that box. I've never gotten it to work. Plus it will conflict with the Volume settings from above. Just keep the destination as /Applications.
Set the 'Package Identifier' to an integer that I never used before.
An integer? That's not right. The package identifier should be something like "com.mycompany.ipodsyncscpt.pkg". The version is an integer.
7). On the 'Contents' tab I just check the checkbox called 'include in root package'.
This may or may not be correct. Build the installer and test it. If it doesn't install the top-level directory, then turn this option on.
8). Build(no warnings or errors), run(choosing 'Machintosh HD' for installation destination), go through all the rest of the steps(enter the admin password).
9). Check under 'Machintosh HD/Applications' for 'MyAppFolder'(it is there).
10). The folder is empty?!
Simplify you settings and try it again. Remember, you are working with stone tools here. You've got to keep it simple. In your installer, show the log and tell it to show everything. That might tell you something - and might not. -
same user with administrative rights on all the servers in single domain user as a part of administrator group in all the servers:
same user is configured as administrator on all the servers in one domain at windows 2003 server. Should this user be made part of domain admin and then this can be set up in the group of administrator for all the servers.
How this is technically different?
If same user is set up as an administrator on all the servers in domain, will it have the same access on all the files as a domain admin user?
dhomyaIf the account is not admin on the domaincontrollers and the account is not member of domain admins or any other privileged AD group, the account has only user privileges on AD and thus cannot perform actions like creating and managing accounts,
groups, OUs,policies, sites, ...in other words cannot potentially ruin Active Directory.
I think that is a pretty big difference.
In fact, it is bad practice to perform you daily server management with an AD privileged account.
In regards of file access. The domain administrator will be just an admin, and thus has the privilies assigned to the local admin group, just as any other admin. But if it are different accounts they might be member of different groups assigning different
privileges. Always be carefull when assuming resulting privileges will be the same.
MCP/MCSA/MCTS/MCITP
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