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Need to allow program to run under Terminal Services 2000 for all users
I have a program called FaxFinder to send out faxes installed on our Terminal Server. The program runs fine under accounts with Administrator privileges, but does not run under any other accounts. How can I give all users on my domain permissions to use this program?
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Tried running regmon and filemon under a user profile, kept telling me bad user name and password, which it isn't, not sure what's going on there. Tried using the native tools, could not find %AllUsersProfile% -- is there no way for me to just set a policy to allow all users full access to this program?
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You can logon to the console as administrator as well, start regmon and filemon, then start the program from a terminal session.
%AllUsersProfile% is the environment variable which gives you the path to the "all users" profile; usually C:\documents and settings\all users, but open a command prompt and enter "echo %allusersprofile%" to be sure.
No, there's no policy to allow "all programs to run for every user" (except making all users administrators); how could there be? It's completely up to the program where and what it tries to write and which system components it tries to access how. If in doubt, ask the company how to get it to run, or replace it with a better software.
It's usually a sign of bad software design to publish a program that doesn't run in a restricted user's context; it's not as if operating systems with user control just appered out of the blue yesterday.
%AllUsersProfile% is the environment variable which gives you the path to the "all users" profile; usually C:\documents and settings\all users, but open a command prompt and enter "echo %allusersprofile%" to be sure.
No, there's no policy to allow "all programs to run for every user" (except making all users administrators); how could there be? It's completely up to the program where and what it tries to write and which system components it tries to access how. If in doubt, ask the company how to get it to run, or replace it with a better software.
It's usually a sign of bad software design to publish a program that doesn't run in a restricted user's context; it's not as if operating systems with user control just appered out of the blue yesterday.
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Gotcha. I do think this is crap software...I'll do some more digging and get back to you...
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got it. The FaxFinder created a virtual printer; I just had to go Start -> Settings->Printers, right-click hit Properties and set Everyone to Full Control on the printer. Thanks for your help
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