User Rights Windows SBS 2003

[W Drew]

I have assigned "user" status to several staff members on the company's domain. Unfortunately, this results in them being unable to use QuickBooks on their computer as SBS advises that the users do not have rights to make system changes (even though it is on their own desktop). The only way I can allow them to use QuickBooks is to change their status to "administrators". As you might imagine this is something that I do not want to do. How do I change the rights of users to allow them to make system changes on their own desktop without making them administrators?

[Ivan Ferreira]

Have you tried the power users group?

[Steven Clementi]

AS with other software packages, the user probably needs "more" access to the Quickbooks directories. By default, "users" do not have full access rights to local drives, usually and need to be granted more rights. Why you ask? Because QUickbooks opens up temporary files and uses the user credentials to do so. If the user is not allowed to do something, QB will complain.


You can try the "Power Users" group, but sometimes that does not work. It would be my first test.

If it does not work, then I would create a new group in the domain, add those users that use QB to it, and grant that group permissions locally (or on the file Server if QB is being shared) in/on the QB directory.

You can probably use a GPO as well instead of hitting each machine that might be used.


Steven