{"id":326,"date":"2006-07-23T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/unable-to-edit-group-membership-for.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-15T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T08:20:42","slug":"unable-to-edit-group-membership-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/unable-to-edit-group-membership-for.htm","title":{"rendered":"Unable to edit group membership for a Windows XP user"},"content":{"rendered":"
Earlier this evening, I was creating a local user on a Windows XP computer using Local Users and Groups from the Computer Management MMC snap-in (compmgmt.msc). Strangely, clicking on the Member Of tab produced the following error:<\/p>\n
Local Users and Groups \n<\/em> \nThe following error occurred while attempting to read the properties for the user <\/em>accountname: \n<\/em> \nThe Server service is not started. \n<\/em> \nI’ve seen this before and this time I thought I should did a little deeper. Running net start server<\/span> from a command prompt returns:<\/p>\n
The service name is invalid \n<\/em> \nI quickly found a workaround – instead of editing the user properties to make them a member of a group, edit the group properties to add the user as a member. Quite why it works this way around but not the other is a mystery to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"