Re: How to give Registry editing rights to XP Pro user?

J Godfrey wrote:
Hi all,

We have a windows NT 4 server in our network. We have a new XP Pro workstation that we have a problem with. The user who has administrator rights on the nt network and administrator rights on the local workstation can't open a program. This user can map to the drive on the server, and look and rename the files on the server, but this user can't remove programs locally on the workstation.



Then that user's domain account doesn't have administrative privileges on the local workstation.


The tech support person I spoke with says I have to give the user registry editing rights on the local machine.


That should be totally unnecessary. Whose tech support did you call? Certainly not anyone even vaguely familiar with WinNT oF WinXP.

But how do I do that if they are already set up as an administrator on the local machine?


There would be no need; an administrator is an administrator.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Setting up XP clients - Insufficient rights
    ... If you logon to/with your new SBS server account you may only have "user ... Trying to do an install on the local XP workstation may create ... If you logon to your local workstation with "Administrator" rights you can ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Local Admin
    ... Local users and groups means exactly that - available only on a local ... workstation - not available on a domain. ... Administrator rights to only one server? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: Re-Post - "the trust relationship between this workstation and
    ... There were no logged events in either the DC or workstation. ... DC/DNS Server - DCDiag ... Attr: subschemaSubentry ... only problem is adding a new user account on the station. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • trust relationship between workstation and the primary domain fail
    ... When I am at a workstation attached to the domain and try to add a local ... Server: server1.contoso.org ... Testing LDAP servers in Domain contoso ... ... Attr: subschemaSubentry ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • RE: Slow Logon related to groups
    ... Open Server Management console on SBS ... Ensure the problematic user has permission to access its home folder on ... After the problematic user logon workstation, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)