Re: HP Scanner user permissions

From: Tomothy Quntington-Flitoris (IainMcLaren35@spamtwatter.hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/02


From: "Tomothy Quntington-Flitoris" <IainMcLaren35@spamtwatter.hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:36:19 -0700


"Corey" <corey@shaw.ca> squrted these wordjisms deep inside the bumtube of
the newstwat in news:92f601c265d5$c59745e0$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12:

> Have a HP USB scanner on a Windows XP client in a Windows
> 2000 domain. Seems the svchost.exe serivce is required
> by the scanner to run, however the service only runs with
> administrative privileges. Meaning I have to add the
> regular user to the adminstrative group. I have tried
> modifying local policies to correct the problem with no
> luck. No domain policies seem to be restricting this
> service. HP passed the issue off to Microsoft ... of
> course heh.. Any ideas on which policy is preventing the
> scanner from working?
>
> Thanks
> Corey
>

I have the same issue with my Mustek scanner. I can get round it by using
Photoshop with the 'run as admin' command. But no-one with a limited user
account can and I'm not willing to give admin rights.

Bit of a pain in the arse really, considering there's not many security
problems you can cause with a scanner........

Iain



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