Win 2000 Pro

[aunixguru]

I am trying to setup a win 2k pro box on a Windows NT 4 domain.

I have this problem.

If I don't login to the domain, just the box, I can install software (as administrator) and run it as any other user I login into the box as. I get a new desktop and configuration for each person I login as.

Say I am user jim. I login into the win 2k pro box as jim (power user) and I can run all the software the administrator installed.

As soon as I login into the domain as jim. I get a new desktop and all new configuration. I have a piece of software that won't run (Reflections 7, Visual basic scripting error).

I have noticed that if I give jim domain admins in the domain the software will run without problem.

I do not want to give jim domain admins.

Anyone know how to get around this problem?

Is there a way to only have 1 desktop config for jim? 1 for local box and the same for the domain?


Please help. I'm baffled.

 

[jjgraf]

Very simple W2kPro is creating more than one profile for jim and treating him as Domain User or Power User. There is no way to stop this it's a feature, NT 4.0 did this also

example:

w2kPro\jim the locale profile on that machine and jim is a poweruser

YourDomain\jim the other Profile and jim is a domain user with no real power to do much.

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What you do to fix this go into the local computers settings add the Domain Group that jim is in to the power user group. This will give jim the power he needs.

To do this go into Control Panel, then click on Users and Passwords, then to Advance Tab, then click on the button Advance, then go to groups then, Double Click on Power Users, then Click the ADD button, then click on drop down box, Select your domain, then on the dialog boxes click on the group you want to add.
This will turn all users in that Group to Power Users on that machine.

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To see all the different profiles you have created go 'C:\Documents and Settings' you will see a couple of Directories with the users names that is where all the settings are stored for the different users

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to delete these different profiles you Right click on my computer then left clickto Properties, then to User Profiles Tab

 

[alicep]

I had a similar problem with scanner software that I posted a few days ago. This tip from Yizhar worked to correct the problem. Maybe you could give Domain\Jim full control on the Reflections registry key and also NTFS permissions on the c:\Program Files\Reflections. Good Luck

Original tip:

Another option for you is to check out what registry keys or files are blocked from your users, and give USERS access to these specific keys/folder.
i.e. add permissions USERS=FULL CONTROL (or less) only to HKLM/SOFTWARE/EPSON/...
and to C:\PROGRAM FILES\EPSON\whatever

Bye

Yizhar Hurwitz