When I login as the local administrator account on any Windows XP SP3 machine on our Windows 2003 domain, I have elevated rights. Ican access C$share onvarious (not all) Windows Server 2003 servers andXP workstations on the domain. No authentication box appears and I connect with modify/delete rights to anything on the drive. These XP local administrator accounts are not members ofanyAD groups. This only happenswith theXP local administrator accounts. If I login as the local administrator on a AD Member Serverallsecurity is normal, I need to authenticate to anydomain machine I try to access.

Hi, This issue may occur if there is any cached credentials stored on the Windows XP. Run "control userpasswords2", switch to Advanced tab, clear all cached credentials and test. If the issue still occurs, check if the password of local administrator is the same on clients and server. Try to change the local admin password to any one and test. Is there any progress? Also try to check if you have run "net use" command or map the share. Thanks.This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.