You may want to look into changing the default msDS-MachineAccountQuota. This setting allows any user to create 10 computer accounts by default. You can change this via a script, LDP or ADSI edit. If you change the default value to 0 then your delegation model will probably work but the default behavior will be changed.
It may work... Keivn -----Original Message----- From: Greg Felzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Remove the ability to create computer accounts in the computer container Hello, Maybe the collective minds here can come up with something..... I have given a group (Join Computers to the Domain group) the rights to join computers to the domain through the Default Domain policy. Only this group has rights to join computers to the domain. I have created a web page that creates a computer account (it checks first to make sure the computer account does not exist) base upon department specific input from the user. Once the account is created the user names his computer the same as the computer account and joins the domain. The problem I am having is that some of the user that are members of the Join Computers to the Domain group are not using the web page. They are using "My network place", advanced, network identification.....ect to join the domain. This creates a computer account in the computer container. When this happens I get a computer account showing up in the computer container that I do not know what department it belongs to. My solution (that does not work) was to remove all rights (including System rights) to the computer container. I figured without rights they would not be able to create the computer accounts. This did not work so I denied the ability to create all child objects for the Join computers group in the Computers Container. This did not work so I denied the right for Everyone. Also did not work. Any ideas on how to prevent all users from creating computer objects in the computers container? Thanks Greg Greg Felzer MCSE NT4, MCSE 2000, CCA, CCNA, CNA Senior Systems Engineer Center for Computing and Information Technology Medical University of South Carolina List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
