Accounts with ether cannot execute transaction on private chain

Question

According to Metamask my accounts have ether, one account can submit transactions and have them be executed by the network, the other two have their transactions left as Submitted transaction.

Note, the account that works has a private key in the keystore in the chain's datadir. The other two accounts were added to metamask and had ether sent to them with web3.eth.sendTransaction().

I am not sure why their transactions are not being executed by the PoA network, they are also not sealers in the network, could this be why?

Answer 1

Depending on how you configured your PoA network, it could be you disallowed transaction sending for everyone and instead set up the permission-only setting: https://wiki.parity.io/Permissioning