Re: Assigning applications to clients with USER GROUP privilege



In news:01D37FE9-2DA7-444F-BA69-883D87D128AB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
johnG <johnG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> Thanks for the last advice it did work however once the user was
> removed from the security group and relogged on the same problem
> occured.

With which applications?

> I even installed the regmon program to see waht the issue
> could be. Regmon will not activate when account is in the "UserGroup"
> What could be done?

Run it when you're in as an admin. Check the included documentation/help for
Regmon/Filemon....


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>> In news:3D19CE58-220C-46B5-A566-15CA07CF0F3B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>> johnG <johnG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
>>> Thank you Lanwench for replying to my question. But I think I was
>>> not clear. Let me clarify. We assigned applications such as autocad
>>> and frontpage to a user on the network. This user account had been
>>> incorporated into the "User Group". When the user logged onto the
>>> network they were not able to install frontpage because the desktop
>>> installation icon was not there nor were they able to launch the
>>> autodesk program. When trying to launch autodesk program the program
>>> gave the user an error saying that they should use the regedit
>>> command to edit th registry. When an administrator logged on to the
>>> same computer station everything worked fine.
>>>
>>> Question: Is there something we can do to allow members of the user
>>> group to install programs assigned by the server? Thanks
>>>
>>> We are trying out the regmon program. Thanks we will let you know at
>>> things go.
>>
>> You can temporarily grant the user local admin rights. I like to set
>> up an AD security group called "Local Admins" and add that to all
>> workstations' local administrators groups....then you can add the
>> users to this group, have them log in, and the apps should be
>> assigned. They can then log out, and you can take them out of that
>> AD group, and you don't even have to visit the machine. Does this
>> help?
>>
>>
>>> -
>>> johnG
>>>
>>>
>>> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In news:46D81545-DEA2-4215-9B5C-C788487BD15A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>> johnG <johnG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
>>>>> We are running windows xp with service pack 2 on all the client
>>>>> stations. We were runing programs with no issues however the
>>>>> programs were installed with local administrative rights. We,
>>>>> recently installed a new small businees server 2003 system.
>>>>> Everything works fine except some of the client computers. Here is
>>>>> the problem-Some of the users were given "User group" rights from
>>>>> the server when their account was set up. Now when the client user
>>>>> logs on to the computer station and try to launch the program they
>>>>> get a registry error and the program won't launch. If the user is
>>>>> added to the "Administrators Group" and logs on the computer
>>>>> station they are able to launch the software. Question: Is there
>>>>> anyway to to assign software applications to a user who belongs to
>>>>> the "User Group"? We tried to assign applications from the server
>>>>> to the client user but the application won't get assigned to a
>>>>> user who belongs to the "User Group" . --
>>>>> johnG
>>>>
>>>> Firstly, I'd work on figuring out what, in these badly written
>>>> apps, the user account needs permissions to write to. Try regmon &
>>>> filemon from www.sysinternals.com to see if you can modify the
>>>> registry or file path to grant "authenticated users" modify
>>>> permissions, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I don't like adding users to the local administrators group.


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