Re: Security Privileges to uninstall devices

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Dave W wrote:
Hi Guys,

I'm stumped on what's going on. I've looked all over and cannot find
a solution for this. I've done over 25 SBS server installations and
have never run across this. Hopefully, someone has some suggestions.

I just finished a new installation for a client. They have 3 desktops
and 4 laptops. I added them all to the domain by using
http://servername/connectcomputer. The machines rebooted twice and
all appeared well.

However, about a week later, I begin to notice that they are having
security issues. When they try and manage 'My Computer', and then
select devices, they receive the following error:

"You do not have sufficient security privileges to uninstall devices
or to change device properties or device drivers. Please contact your
site administrator, or logout and log in again as an administrator and
try again."

Their domain user account is in the local administrators group. This
gets populated during the connectcomputer phase. I have not messed
with any settings and have just used the defaults when adding the user/
machine to the domain. The users are set up as the default normal
user template.

If I log on as local administrator, the same problem occurs so it
appears to be something specific to the machines.

I don't understand why this is happening. The server and clients are
all fully patched (XP3 on clients).


Can someone please shed some light?

Thanks very much in advance.

-dave
Administrator account gets: "You do not have sufficient security privileges to install devices on th:
http://www.secnewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.win2000.security/topic6333.aspx


Something is pushing down a policy or something was installed?
.

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