NT registry Permission problem

Burt Avery ba2k at virginia.edu
Fri Feb 11 13:15:56 GMT 2000


That parallels the origin of the locked HKCU problem I have been seeing
that causes the Tips and IE4Tour to run as if for the initial user startup.
User account had no access to rewrite any component of HKCU.

-ba-

At 10:25 AM 2/11/2000 +1100, Thien Vu wrote:
>I have confirmed that I have the same problem with non-admin users. Does 
>anyone know of a fix for this problem?? It prevents several of my users from 
>having any preferences saved, setting a default printer and other several 
>critical issues.
>
>Seems to be a very serious problem. I ran regedt32 and looked at the 
>permissions on HKEY_CURRENT_USERS hive, and Everyone has READ permission, 
>but only System and the Local Administrator has FULL CONTROL. I will try to 
>set this hive to allow Everyone to have FULL CONTROL because this hive gets 
>dumped back to the NTUSER.DAT file in the profiles right??
>
>Thien Vu
>
>
>>From: Zhi-Wei Lu <zwluxx at chopin.cipic.ucdavis.edu>
>>Reply-To: zwluxx at chopin.cipic.ucdavis.edu
>>To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
>>Subject: NT registry Permission problem
>>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:42:32 +1100
>>
>>Dear Samba gurus,
>>
>>I have been running samba Head-branch for over half year.  I am running the
>>PDC on an SGI IRIX 6.5.6m O2 macine.  I downloaded and compiled the
>>head-branch code on July 23, 1999.  The samba PDC had been running just 
>>fine
>>until recently, I noticed that the smbd leaks memory very quickly.
>>
>>I downloaded the latest CVS head-branch on Feb. 2 and compiled the code, 
>>the
>>PDC will let NT domain users to log into the NT machine, but it failed to
>>grant them the privilege to write to local user registry, such as adding
>>a new key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software. Therefore, many programs do not
>>work right at all. I then switched to the main branch 2.0.6,
>>the same problem happened too (Of course, I have to rejoin the samba domain
>>for an NT worstation).  I am using the same smb.conf file for all three
>>cases.
>>
>>I have set up a test domain to test the 2.0.6 on SGI, digital UNIX, and
>>on Linux machines.  I have encountered similar problems consisntly.  I 
>>still
>>havn't tracked down to the root of the problem.  Do anybody experience
>>similar problem?
>>
>>Thank you for your help in advance.
>>
>>Zhi-Wei Lu
>>CIPIC (Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing)
>>UC Davis                Phone:  (530)-752-0494
>>Davis, CA 95616         Fax:    (530)-752-8894
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Burt Avery
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia
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