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Cannot See The New User I Created

Started by rpmm , May 31 2011 01:07 AM

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rpmm

Posted 31 May 2011 - 01:07 AM

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I just set up my WHS2011 on an hp microserver. All went well, updates are applied. All this happened under the "Administrator" user. Now I want to set up a second user with elevated privileges, so that I can avoid using Administrator. I did it from the dashboard and a) there was no way to specify that the user should be administrator (like I can from the User Accounts in Control Panel) and

I saw the user listed under Users on the Dashboard but now I cannot see it.

If I try to set up a new user using the same user name I get a message that a user with the same name already exists. so I know the system understands there is a user. Why then, can't I see it in the Dashboard (or even use that user to connect via Remote Desktop)?

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Drashna Jaelre (WGS)

Posted 31 May 2011 - 07:10 AM

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Why not use the Administrator account? It's what the dashboard uses. And I'm sure WHS2011 is using some trickery with the user accounts, much the same way that WHSv1 does.

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rpmm

Posted 31 May 2011 - 08:09 PM

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Why not use the Administrator account? It's what the dashboard uses. And I'm sure WHS2011 is using some trickery with the user accounts, much the same way that WHSv1 does.

I don't mind. Is that ok? I was under the assumption that we should avoid using "Administrator" as an account for "normal use". If this is an exception, I am just fine not managing users :-)