Kurt4949
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Restricted User has no desktop
Hello,
I created a restricted user account on windows server 2003. When I log in as this user the desktop does not appear. If i press ctrl+alt+del and then run explorer.exe, I get an error access denied message. If I change the user account to a power user then the user can log in just fine. Why?
I created a restricted user account on windows server 2003. When I log in as this user the desktop does not appear. If i press ctrl+alt+del and then run explorer.exe, I get an error access denied message. If I change the user account to a power user then the user can log in just fine. Why?
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possibly my hard disks have the wrong security settings?
What did you do to restrict the user account?
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When I add a user account to the server I chose restricted user which is the Users Group instead of standard user which is the power users group.
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I checked the NTFS permissions on the windows folder and the user group has read access so I'm not sure what is causing this.
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You were right. explorer.exe had only permissions for power users, administrators, and system. Not sure why it was like that
Not sure why the file was like that. Glad you got it working.
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