by Kathy Ivens, challenge@windowsitpro.com
July 2006 Reader Challenge Winners
Congratulations to the winners of our July 2006 Reader Challenge. First prize, a copy of "Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, Second Edition," goes to Robert Brennan, of California. Second prize, a copy of "Learning Windows Server 2003, Second Edition," goes to Kent Ifland, of Kansas. O'Reilly & Associates Publishing publishes both books.
August 2006 Reader Challenge
Solve this month's Windows Client challenge, and you might win a prize! Email your solution (don't use an attachment) to challenge@windowsitpro.com by Aug. 10, 2006. You MUST include your full name, and street mailing address (without that information, we can't send you a prize if you win, so your answer is eliminated, even if it’s correct).
I choose winners at random from the pool of correct entries. I’m a sucker for humor and originality, and a cleverly written correct answer gets an extra chance. Because I receive so many entries each month, I can't reply to respondents, and I never respond to a request for a receipt. Look for the solutions to this month's problem at http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=93023 on Aug. 14, 2006, or in this email newsletter.
The August 2006 Challenge:
A reader of one of my books wrote to ask for help. She administers a domain and wanted to add a new local user to one of the computers on the domain. She logged on the computer as a Domain Admin, opened the Users applet in Control Panel, and went through the New User Wizard, setting up the new user. Windows issued a failure message that told her the user didn't exist and therefore couldn't be made a user on this computer. The last line of her e-mail message asks, “Surely a Domain Admin has the right permissions to create a user, so what’s the problem”?
Can you provide an answer for “What’s the problem”?
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