Limited account's access to CD WRITER

[Guest]

Hi there I wonder if anyone can help with this.

Our church runs a savings club, the weekly amounts are recorded in an exel file.
The member who records the information logs in under a lmited account.

She wants to save the file on a weekly basis on a CDR but gets an error message saying that she does not have access rights to the CD writer.

Is it possible to provide such access to a limited account in XP Home, or do we need to upgrade her account to administrator.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Martyn

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hi there I wonder if anyone can help with this.

Our church runs a savings club, the weekly amounts are recorded in an
exel file.
The member who records the information logs in under a lmited account.

She wants to save the file on a weekly basis on a CDR but gets an
error message saying that she does not have access rights to the CD
writer.

Is it possible to provide such access to a limited account in XP
Home, or do we need to upgrade her account to administrator.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Martyn

Giving that user admin privileges would be the simple fix for the problem,
without tweaking the permissions, which can be difficult in the Home version
of XP. Unless that member is not trusted.

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Thanks for your reply Ronnie, at the end of the day I might end up doing what you suggest.

But I've been playing around a bit and seem to have done something that works, I dragged the CDRW (drive D) icon into shared folders and it can now be accessed from the limited account although going through 'save as' in exel still doesn't permit acces to the CDRW she will now be able to simply copy the completed file to the it.

It seems to be working at the moment but if it goes wrong I will probably do what you suggested.

Thanks again for replying.

Martyn

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Thanks for your reply Ronnie, at the end of the day I might end up
doing what you suggest.

But I've been playing around a bit and seem to have done something
that works, I dragged the CDRW (drive D) icon into shared folders and
it can now be accessed from the limited account although going
through 'save as' in exel still doesn't permit acces to the CDRW she
will now be able to simply copy the completed file to the it.

It seems to be working at the moment but if it goes wrong I will
probably do what you suggested.

Thanks again for replying.

Martyn

Glad you got this sorted. Have fun.
--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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