Hi
I hope someone is able to help, it’s been driving me NUTS for days now and extensive Googling hasn’t quite yielded an answer!
I need to add the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account to the ACL of a directory on our server – however, the account does not show up on any searches whatsoever. I understand from my searches, that although domain controllers do not have local accounts, they do still have the built-in ‘special’ accounts and that these should possibly be held within Active Directory under ‘Foreign Security Principals’ – but we only have two accounts listed in that OU – ‘NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users’ and ‘NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE’. Does anyone know if Network Service should be listed in there and if so how I’d go about getting it in there? And if not, how do I add the Network Service account in the ACL for a domain controller?
Many thanks in advance
Chris
From Administrative Tools > Computer Management, expand System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Groups.
Double-click the Users group and click Add. Click Locations and select your computer node.
Now: Type Network Service into the ‘Enter the object names’ OR.