Your ghost sounds interesting. Can you just remove the ghost? Do you have a GPO that's trying to put the user account in the local admins? As for disconnecting and reconnecting with a different account, you can, but that doesn't sound like it solves the original problem as well. It would be a PITA to repermission the folders out there that rely on the users AD sid. If you can fix the local workstation, that would be a better route IMHO based on the information given. Al -----Original Message----- From: Chris Rollison [mailto:crollison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:09 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Crazy Problem http://www.MSExchange.org/ I have a crazy problem, primarily with Win2k server, but I'm trying to find a workaround. My problem is that i have a ghost user. I have a user who everything was working fine. One day she couldn't access her exchange mailbox. I try working on the machine, then try to readd her to the local admin group. There are two users, the one that should be there and another with the username and the serial number following it. Adding both will not let me gain amdin privs. The second user does not show up on Active Directory users and computers anywhere. I have checked the lost and found, but nothing. anyway If you have fix for the above, that would be great, but how about a workaround. Is there anyway to create a new user, make that user have the same e-mail address as the old user, but different logon. Can I then reassociate the old users mailbox to the new user. Confusing but I'm reaching here. Thank You ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: al.mulnick@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx