User Rights at Client Seem to Vary

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From: TonyM (tonym_at_southernwoodwork.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:52:44 -0500

Hello all,

I am currently in the process of switching our entire network from a
Novell Netware 5.0 environment to a Windows 2003 Server active domain
environment so if this question seems dumb, please bear with me.

As this will be a somewhat lengthy process, involving some custom
software upgrades, I will continue to run both servers until I am
satisfied that the Windows server is 100%. I have started with moving
the accounting department as the accounting software and databases run
from the server. This is also a small department, there for a good place
to start.

My problem:

I have 5 users, all working on Win2000 pro sp4 workstations with pentium
processors and 256mb ram. These stations are running Novell client 4.9
which the user uses to log onto the Novell server and the Windows
domain. 3 of these stations log on to both servers without a hitch. All
software works correctly and the users have access to both servers
logging on with their domain profiles. The other 2 stations is where I
am having problems. When the user logs on, using the domain profile, I
get pop-ups requesting the MS Office install CD-ROM. When I put the CD
in the drive I get errors saying that the user does not have rights to
modify the WIN.INI file. Nothing in the MS Office works, I get a lot of
"Please reinstall" errors. Also the accounting package appears to start
when you click the icon but doesn't come up. It just runs as a service.
If I log on to the station with the user's local profile all works
correctly with no problems. If I log on to the station with my profile
(local or domain) everything works correctly.

One of the problem users has full Admin rights (he is the owner) and the
other user is a Power User. Both users are in the Domain Users group on
the server. The other 3 users are Power Users in the Domain Users Group

All 5 workstations were set up the same way. I basically logged on as
the local user to create a new domain profile on the workstation then,
as Admin, I copied the local profile to the Domain profile through the
User Profiles in the System Properties dialog box.

I'm sure I missing something in the rights category but since all 5 were
done the same way I'm stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Tony M.

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