XP USERRIGHTS

[tmandu]

This could be invloved but my question is this. As administrator I am setting up WIndows Xp professional on our workstations which will be on our network. How do I Install application programs to the workstation with the thought in mind that this machine will be shared by 2 persons. I want them to be able to access it and not have to reinstall in twice. In the past on my NT machines I give the user temporary administrator right and install it. Thsi seems to work. I then change their group rights on the server back to "user". They go in and it seems to work.

How do I limit other users from going to this machine and stop them from logging in and doing a setup themselves. I want to deny anyone other than the persons I want at this machine to be at this machine.


Thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

Yeah... wondering this as well... but for different reasons. How do you set temporary administrator rights to the current user without logging off? "Run as" administrator installs setting to that user profile and not the current one.

 

[tmandu]

Not familiar with "run as" all I know is that I do have to log off - change their settings on the server so that they are in admin group do my install and then change back to normal "user" and it works-

 

[SQLBill]

Have you tried loading the software as administrator, then creating a group that can execute the application and assigning only those two users to the group?

-Bill

 

[Guest_imported]

Yeah, the group thing will do it, although I'm not too certain of your problem. Can you explain it in more detail?

What I understand is that you have a usergroup that accesses the workstation but you only want two of the people in that group to have administrative priviledges. You can simply just assign those specific users as part of the "Administrators" group then instead of giving the whole group administrative priviledges.