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I have a query about server 2003 as I'm a novice in this area.
I have just installed this product (as a replacement for NT4) in a school and on some occassions the teachers allow the students to play games as recreational time. Unfortunately when they try and play the games that were already installed on the workstations they get an error screen to say they don't have the correct permission and so far the only way to allow them to play the game is to log them on as the administrator. Obviously this could lead to severe problems and I'm not sure of the correct way round this. All the student are just logged on as normal users.
Can anyone help with the best method to allow any user on the workstation to play the game?????
Thanks in advance
Pete
You have them logon localy with admin rights, not into the domain. or give admin right on there desktops , put there local user account into the local admin group.. but don't have them logon as doamin admin..
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I wouldn't do any of that. I would set the programs in question to run under the admin's account. That should allow the kids to play it without changing their group membership.
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never give kids ADMIN rights !!!! Create an account that will be used by the kids only and then go into the permissions of the program or file and give that account the proper permissions to play the games...that's the short way. The best way is to create Group Policies and your life will be alot easier.
Bh the playground legend
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Maybe you can try to find the rights they need to play games. Did you try to give they full control on games directories? Did you try to give them some more permissions in the local policies?
If I were you I would do something like this but do not give them administrator rights. If you find the permission they will be able to play games but not to install them.
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Thanks for the replies
Curt R - the games already run if you log on ad asministrator but the kids (as normal users) keep getting error messages saying that they do not have permission or admin rights to run the program.
Thanks
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Thanks again
gubi - I want to do it the 'correct' way so could you explain how I would do it the group policy way
cheers
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What I meant was....right click on the shortcut to the game and select "Run as" from the menu that comes up. There you can set the game to run under the administrator account (supply username and password) and then, whenever the kids with their user accounts go to run the game, it will run under the admin account....try it, it works. This doesn't give them admin rights, this just runs the game under the admin account whenvever anyone starts it.
NOTE: you'll have to be logged on as the administrator to set this feature.
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To be able to use GPO's you really need a server, the best way is to just add the local user in the local admin group on that machine
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I just did some testing. On an XP PC, you can access the "run as" via the context sensitive menu (ie: right click on the shortcut to the game and select "run as"). 2000 Pro doesn't have this option available but if you check the 2000 help files and search the following string "run an application as the administrator" and click on the link that says "create a shortcut using the runas command parameters" you will find the info needed to do what I said in 2000 Pro as well.
You don't need GPO's, you don't need to add students to the administrator group...in fact, you don't need to change anything except the account the program runs under when it is invoked
The reason the kids can't run the games now is because the game is being run under their user accounts which have restrictions. If you force the games to run under the administrators account, it's the same as if you've given the kids membership in the administrator group (ie: no restrictions).....only my way, their group membership doesn't change and they therefore cannot make trouble and cause problems on the systems. The only thing that changes doing it my way is the game itself runs under a non-restricted account.....not the users.
Too simple, too sensible, too logical..........too right!
So just what part of this aren't you guys understanding????
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using secondy logon only works on exacutbles only, by giving them local admin rights to there pc , is not the same as giving them rights to to domain. there are certain folders that need the right permissions and the secondy logon will not do that.
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even if you do the secondy logon, you still need to provide the admin account info to get the game to run, and I not even sure there is a DC, he never talks about one.. It might be just a peer to peer network.
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It does work in a domain, I've done it. The info (admin account name and password) is provided when you set the application to "runas" and is remembered and used automatically whenever the app is run thereafter. If you're doing it on the local PC, use the local admin account.
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Hi Guys
Thanks for all your help
Just so everybody knows, it is a server 2003 server with XP PRO workstations running on a domain.
Curt R - this does indeed sound too simple!!
But I'll try it and just to recap....you don't have to put in the username and password everytime???Thanks
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No, once you've set the application to run under the Administrator Account it should remember this for future use.
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