Re: Must all users be administrators?

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From: Mark Mancini (info_at_NOSPAMmcse2000.com)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:31:54 -0400

making users local admins of the machine is common.....ALL of my clients are
setup that way since ALL my clients use s/w that requires that! Sucks, eh?? 

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Mark Mancini, CCA, CCNA, Master CIW&CI, CNE 4&5, MCSE+I 4&2000
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"Anna Clark" <anna.clark(remove this)@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:ePYPI%23bPEHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello everyone:
>
> One of my sites has a problem.  The are a mortgage broker company and use
a
> software that requires that they save their loan applications to a folder
on
> the local workstation.
>
> Unless their domain id is part of the local adminstrators group, they
cannot
> save the file.
>
> Moreover, it seems to me that to make an end user any less than an
> administrator over the local system is just asking to make trip after trip
> to the site to give disgruntled users permissions to do this and that.
>
> How do others handle this problem, if it is a problem... or have I missed
> something basic.
>
> I take care of SBS W2K, and SBS 2K3 sites where the clients are XP Pro or
> W2K Pro and face this issue at all of them.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Anna
>
>

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