Yep it's a funny one, John. Existing users can authenticate to the site, but I can't add new users after adding them in AD, and no matter what I do I can't seem to get the account creation thing happening in a designated AD OU either (fails with a similar error "The format of the specified domain name is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800704BC)"). I have managed to run stsadm -o migrateuser to cheat and assign a previous user id that was migrated from WSS2 to a new AD user - this seemed to work fine. I don't know if I'm running into some sort of bug, but I thought it would be worth cutting my losses and opting out of the Acc Creation mode ... Will try what you suggested though ... to see if it's a server problem rather than WSS itself (although DNS looks good). Bob
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hodgson, John Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 6:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Account Creation Mode I can't understand why Acc Creation mode would impact users ability to auth against that service assuming the users have been given appropriate access. Have you tried extending another Web App to a different port using the same content? Then try logging into the new web site. John Hodgson Lead Solution Consultant HP Consulting & Integration 0411 242 880 mobile | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.hp.com <http://www.hp.com/> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Bradley Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 6:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] Account Creation Mode Guys I've upgraded to WSS 3 from WSS 2, and over many of the problems apart from various issues whereby I can't seem to validate users against my domain. I am thinking that it is because I chose to turn on this mode when I upgraded, when previously this was not the option I had under WSS 2. Does anyone know if it is possible to turn this mode off again ... I presume an uninstall/reinstall may be necessary, but I am looking for a failsafe approach that is the simplest (can't find any doco here). Can anyone help me please? Is it a matter of removing SharePoint from the website and then reinstating it (without deleting the SQL dbs of course)? I had a recent posting on a related problem, which seems to be one of 3 or 4 symptoms of what I imagine is the same problem, i.e. misleading error messages like the following: UNIFYSOLUTIONS\<<any user name>> is not a valid user in the unifysolutions.local domain Cheers ________________________________ Bob Bradley UNIFY <http://www.unifysolutions.net/> Solutions Pty Ltd <http://www.unifysolutions.net/> Identity Management Specialists Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: +61 1300 889 519 Fax: +61 8 8231 8643 Mobile: +61 438 181 003 Web: www.unifysolutions.net <http://www.unifysolutions.net/> Note: This e-mail and accompanying attachments may contain confidential or privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender and delete all copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
