Q151720: Auditing Stand-Alone Servers in a Windows NT Domain

Article: Q151720
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): 3.5,3.51,4.0
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Last Modified: 19-FEB-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 3.51, 4.0 
- Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51, 4.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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The Audit Policy for your domain is set to audit File and Object Access Success
and Failure. You use File Manager to connect to a share on one of your Windows
NT servers. The server is a member of the domain but is not a domain controller.
You highlight a directory, click on Security, Auditing, select Events to Audit,
and Add Users and Groups. Clicking OK returns the following:

  Current audit policy does not have auditing turned on. Ask an Administrator
  to use User Manager to turn on auditing.

RESOLUTION
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Start User Manager for Domains, click User, Select Domain, and enter the
Server's name instead of a domain name. For instance, if you wish to audit
events on the stand-alone server \\SA_SERVER, type "\\SA_SERVER" (without the
quotes) in the Domain box. User Manager will display accounts database of
\\SA_SERVER. Proceed to set the Audit Policy for \\SA_SERVER.

MORE INFORMATION
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Domain audit policies apply to domain controllers. Domain audit policies will
not automatically take effect on stand-alone Windows NT servers even though such
servers may be members of a domain. To establish audit policies on a stand-alone
server, User Manager must be focused on the server, not on the domain.

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Version           : :3.5,3.51,4.0

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