Re: user and group troubles

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:15:00 -0700

Apps that are not written to the Windows specification cause
no end of headaches. Complain to the vendor so that they will
eventually get the message.
Many time all that one needs to do is to grant the Users group
change on the applications installation directory. Sometimes
applications expect some temp file location to which Users do
not have permissions, sometimes the app has a .ini file in the
system directory, and sometimes applications want to write
into areas of the registry where a Users member is not allowed.
You can use regmon and filemon from www.sysinternals.com
to trace execution failure and discover where the app is throwing
access violations. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Bryan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:145c001c4141b$0534dec0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Windows 2000 domain.  After I load an application such as
> Auotcoad as local Administrator on either a win 2000 pro
> or win xp pro workstation then log on to the domain as a
> general user I cannot get the application to run without
> giving the user local Admin rights on the said workstation.
> I try the local power user group and that works for the
> most part but some features of the software don't work
> such as translators etc..  Autodesk says the user has to
> have local Admin rights but that can't happen due to our
> company policy.  This happens with many software packages
> including UG CATIA etc...  Someone please help stop the
> insanity I have alot of users that switch PC's and it's
> bad when they can't use a PC because I haven't added them
> to the user and groups of the local machine. Anyone know
> why this would be happening?
>
>
>
>

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