[Samba] Administrator account lost administrative privileges

[lingpanda101]

On 1/23/2018 8:37 AM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:20:28 -0500
> lingpanda101 via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>       Using Samba 4.7.4 on 6 Ubuntu 14.04 as DC's. Recently noticed
>> applications were failing to install on Windows 10 and 7
>> workstations. Started to investigate and noticed the Administrator
>> account could not install software.  The Domain Admins appear to work
>> as normal with full domain rights. As a test I logged in to a Windows
>> 10 workstation as Administrator and invoked a command prompt with
>> 'Run as Administrator'. Attempted to run 'ipconfig /registerdns' I
>> get the prompt about needing to run with administrative privileges.
>>
>> Not entirely sure where to start to see if this is a Samba or Windows
>> issue. Anyone have a list of what group memberships the Administrator
>> should be a part of by default? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
> On my DC, Administrator is a member of:
>
> Domain Admins, Administrators, Enterprise Admins, Group Policy Creator
> Owners, Schema Admins
>
> Have you checked if Administrator is disabled on the affected machines,
> or if its password has expired ?
>
> Rowland
>
>
>
Thanks. That solved it. Administrator was not part of Domain Admins any 
longer.

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James