Office 2000 Problems for users designated "Domain User"

Patrick Reid p.j.reid at earthling.net
Mon Nov 19 10:42:26 GMT 2001


Apparently I am not so much an idiot. I made the changes below, and still
had trouble with Office programs. Outlook would not run, Word always prompts
for user's name and initials, etc. Tried adding "Domain Users" to the Power
Users group but Win2k told me it couldn't do it because I was trying to an a
non-existent user or group. This for a group which I picked off the list of
users and groups for the domain that Win2k itself presents.

I think that this problem is related to the same problem I have with adding
domain users to the ACL for a client machine's share, where Win 2k says it
is "Unable to lookup user name for display."

I guess I need to wait for a quiet long weekend and completely remove all
vestiges of Samba and then re-install, hoping that this time user support
will be OK. Can't think of anything else to do.

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of Patrick Reid
Sent: November 19, 2001 8:25 AM
To: Doug Douglass; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: Office 2000 Problems for users designated "Domain User"


Well, the reality appears to be that I am an idiot.

For some reason, I seem to read "guest" as "user". When I first set up Samba
using SWAT, I read "Domain Guest group" as "Domain Users Group" and put all
users in there by default. Of course, various Word functions failed to work
for them (all those associated with personalization, expecially in the
registry). I now have most users not listed in either of those two fields by
default, and only my real admins listed in the "Domain Administrators group"
and what do you know, it all works as it should.

Sheesh.

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Douglass [mailto:samba at denverdata.com]
Sent: November 16, 2001 12:47 PM
To: Patrick Reid; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: Office 2000 Problems for users designated "Domain User"


Patrick,

Is Office/Word installed locally on each client? If so, who/what kind of
user installed Office, a local Administrator?

I've seen problems with applications (Quickbooks, for one) that read/write
to restricted parts of the Registry. If the current user is either in the
local "Users" group or the "Domain Users" group, these operations fail.

Instead of having all users be "Domain Admins" (very bad idea!!!), what we
did was add the group "Domain Users" to the local "Power Users" group on
each client. The errant applications have worked fine since.

We have a small network, so going to each client and modifying the groups
wasn't a big deal. If you have a lot of clients, you may be able to resolve
the issue centrally via policies, but I'm not certain.

HTH,
Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Patrick Reid
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 5:14 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Office 2000 Problems for users designated "Domain User"
>
>
> I am running Samba 2.2.2 on Redhat 7.2, with the kernel upgraded
> to 2.4.10.
>
> At the moment, all of my Samba users have to be listed as "Domain
> Admins" in
> order for Word to work. If they are set up as "Domain Users", every Word
> won't start. I found an MS KB article which suggested changing
> some options
> in the administrative tools, but it did not entirely fix the problem. Can
> anyone help me with this? I don't want to give all of my users
> admin rights
> on their local machines.
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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