Windows 2000 security problems
Chris Kuryllo
application problems. Those problems look like regular application problems,
but they occur only when I run those applications with the Users or Power
Users authorization and they don't occur when I run them with the
Administrators authorization.
For example, when I try to print I get an error indicating some unidentified
script error. When I click on some links in IE, nothing happens. It looks as
if only links which want to start another IE session don't work. Those URLs
are correct, since they work fine when I type them in the Address bar. The
Office Assistant of MS Office 2000 doesn't want to start either. Otherwise
everything works fine. Go figure!
I've reinstalled the printer driver, IE (I had IE 6 and went back to IE 5.5)
and MS Office, but that didn't help at all.
I did install and uninstall several applications before that happened. I
also did play with the directory security, but those problems didn't
disappear even when I gave Power Users full control over all directories. I
did not modified any Windows policies (not intentionally at least).
Any ideas what may be wrong?
Thanks, Chris
PC
the Windows 2000 groups. This is an NT Ng.
"Chris Kuryllo" <kury...@home.com> wrote in message
news:G0rz7.29586$YL3.7...@news3.rdc1.on.home.com...
Ken Hagan
>
> You may want to check out msnews.microsoft.com news server and subscribe
to
> the Windows 2000 groups. This is an NT Ng.
I'd have said this was on-topic...
* Win2K is NT5 in all but name (and WinXP is NT6).
* There are no comp.os.ms-windows.win2k.* groups -- just NT ones.
* This group already takes a lot of 2K questions without complaint.
With regard to the OP, apps that don't work because of some security issue
are a real menace. You can either start auditing both the file system and
the registry for access failures, and expect to wade through massive logs,
or you can try to get the application vendor to do this for you. They are
in a much better position to pin-point the problem, but of course it all
probably "works for them".
Richard Ballard
"Ken Hagan" <K.H...@thermoteknix.co.uk> writes:
>"PC" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote...
>>
>>You may want to check out msnews.microsoft.com news
>>server and subscribe to the Windows 2000 groups. This is
>>an NT Ng.
>
>I'd have said this was on-topic...
>
>*Win2K is NT5 in all but name (and WinXP is NT6).
>*There are no comp.os.ms-windows.win2k.* groups -- just NT ones.
>*This group already takes a lot of 2K questions without complaint.
Other Internet newsgroups related to Windows 2000
security include:
microsoft.public.win2000.security
microsoft.public.win2000.registry
microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory
Hope that helps.
Richard Ballard MSEE CNA4 KD0AZ
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