Re: 2000 Pro & legacy applications

From: asdf0987z@yahoo.com
Date: 01/08/03 

From: asdf0987z@yahoo.com (asdf0987z@yahoo.com)
Date: 8 Jan 2003 11:56:30 -0800

I feel your pain: I've been admining the same setup for two+ years now
and the only fix is to give your users local Power Users on their
machines, or do what I do and just add the local Power Users account
to Domain Users if you are running a Windows domain. Or possibly
another solution would be to roll out a security template through a
GPO that would give proper rights on the offending local folder
settings, but I haven't done this (yet).

And, to make matters worse, it doesn't get any better with AutoCAD
2000/2002. Allegedly there are some registry hacks that will
remediate this problem, but I am unsure of their legitimacy. You may
wish to peruse the Autodesk support groups for more info as this is a
common topic.

This is really an unfortunate topic and Autodesk has known about it
for some time. Granted they are not the only offending developer, but
the fact that I have to compromise my security policies this
obtrusively just to run such a common and ubiquitous application as
AutoCAD is hideous. You are a dog's breakfast Autodesk.

Bill

"Michael Trent" <mtrent01@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<104001c2b6c1$c470def0$d2f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA09>...
> I work for an Architecture firm that still uses Softdesk 8
> and Autocad R. 14, which were not designed for 2000 Pro. I
> have had to set up my workstations with superuser accounts
> to allow the designers to be able to use these
> applications. I want to give the users a user account (or
> user type permissions) for security purposes, but be able
> to use these legacy apps without having to do a "run as"
> to execute the apps with another accounts permissions. Any
> suggestions? (I already have a request in with Autodesk
> for help) Thanks in advance.