Hello, I administer 6-8 laptops for a large printing company’s electrical department; there about 30-35 users of these laptops i try to keep them as alike as possible (installed programs). We recently were forced to change operating systems to Win200 and Now XP, we were using Win98se for mainly legacy programs to access the plant systems and machine programmable logic controllers. The problem I have is when a normal user tries to use a program that requires a device driver adjustment, or a change to the static TCPIP address they do not have the permissions to do this, only the administrator has that level. How can I give say (Power Users) or a group I could add locally that ability? I would not prefer to give administrator privilege to all users. Our corporate domain authenticates all users. Thank you, Mark Wudtke
Write a batch script that executes the changes and runs under a different user to make the changes you need. Drop this into the individual users' startup file so that when they logon...it auto executes and makes the changes necessary. That way you can put it only in the users' who need it startup file.
