How can I NOT show system tray in Terminal services clients?

[garty]

I am running Win 2000 Terminal services with thin clients (on Neowares).

I have used group policies to strip down what users can and cannot do (like no icons, no control panel, etc).

Everything was fine until we had to instal SQL on the server, which has added a "SQL Service Manager" icon to the system tray. All users that log in can see this icon, can right click on it and stop and pause the service.

I havce tried looking for the program in REGEDIT but nothing springs out as being the program.

Administrator needs to have the icon there and the server itself needs to have the Service running, but Joe Public should not be allowed to "fiddle"

Any responsses gratefully received.

GARTY

 

[Cryptospy]

You may want to consider running the progman.exe shell. Just a thought.. Try looking for a policy that disables the system tray.

Cryptospy

 

[garty]

Sorry Cryptospy, but I do not know what relevance progman.exe has. Is this not the old Program manager that 3.1 used to have? How can that stop the system tray?

I have looked for a policy that stops system tray loading to no avail.

Garty

 

[Cryptospy]

Yes, but I believe you can select in the OU Policies what shell you can use. Progman is the old program manager from windows 3.1 days but it works pretty good... I used it when I first moved over to windows 95. It might really confuse your users though... bonus side, no system tray.

Cryptospy

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I'd guess that you installed SQL to all users. Try de-installing it and re-installing it using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. It should ask you whether you want it installed for all users or just the current one (ie admin )

I hope this helps

 

[garty]

Sorry for the delay in posting back, but I got sidetracked on a different project.

I found another answer that works just as well.

I found out which .exe file the system tray was starting and put a no access file attribute to it for the users who should not see it. SQL was only installed for database reasons between machines and no users are actually using it at all, so this option works quite well.

Thanks to Crytospy and CitrixEngineer for taking the time to answer.

PS have you read my other posting - "How can I restrict a PC logging into trusted domain?"???