XP Home Question

[Scott Souva]

Maybe someone can help me with a problem... My church has XP Home
(running NTFS) with multiple users. On this machine, they have Quick
Books Pro 2004 installed, but only Administrators can run it. I would
like a non-Admin user to run this program.

If this was a XP Pro, I would simply change the security on the
application folder and add specific users. But... this is XP Home,
and there is no "security" tab on the folder properties. So, I used
the cacls.exe command to modify the permissions of the program
directory and files:

Cacls "C:\Program Files\Intuit" /T /G User1:C /E

I verified that all the directories and files were modified with
"create" rights, but this still did not solve my problem. When I try
to launch the Quick Books application, Windows give me an error and
suggests that I change the user to a "Standard" user. According the
User Manager, there is no such thing as a "Standard" user. There are
only "Limited" and "Administrator" types. Is there any way around
this?

Any help would certainly be appreciated. Thanks.

Scot

 

[David Candy]

Limited User = no such thing. It is a User (and thus already a "standard user").

In safe mode the security tab appears.

Filemon/regmon can tell you where it's choking
www.sysinternals.com

 

[Scott Souva]

Limited User = no such thing. It is a User (and thus already a "standard user").

In safe mode the security tab appears.

Filemon/regmon can tell you where it's choking
www.sysinternals.com

When you say there is no such thing, I beg to differ. If you create a
new user, you have two choices (Administrator or Limited User). That
is what is shown on the GUI. Is this normal for the Home Edition?
Since I have always used the Pro Edition, this is all new to me.

BTW - Thanks for the tip about sysinternals. I will check it out.

Scott

 

[David Candy]

There is no such thing as limited user. If you choose limited user you create a plain ordinary user. It is just idiot talk for the home customers. Nor does the welcome screen log you on, it passes it to windows for you to login in the normal NT way. Home is all smoke and mirrors.

 

[D.Currie]

Maybe someone can help me with a problem... My church has XP Home
(running NTFS) with multiple users. On this machine, they have Quick
Books Pro 2004 installed, but only Administrators can run it. I would
like a non-Admin user to run this program.

If this was a XP Pro, I would simply change the security on the
application folder and add specific users. But... this is XP Home,
and there is no "security" tab on the folder properties. So, I used
the cacls.exe command to modify the permissions of the program
directory and files:

Cacls "C:\Program Files\Intuit" /T /G User1:C /E

I verified that all the directories and files were modified with
"create" rights, but this still did not solve my problem. When I try
to launch the Quick Books application, Windows give me an error and
suggests that I change the user to a "Standard" user. According the
User Manager, there is no such thing as a "Standard" user. There are
only "Limited" and "Administrator" types. Is there any way around
this?

Any help would certainly be appreciated. Thanks.

Scot

Are you sure it's a Windows issue and not QuickBooks? Every now and then my
version of QuickBooks decides I need to log on as Administrator to access
the program. But it's a blank password for the logon, and my Administrator
account in Windows most definitely has a password. So in my case it's
QuickBooks that's asking for the Administrator to log in.

 

[Steve N.]

There is no such thing as limited user. If you choose limited user
you create a plain ordinary user. It is just idiot talk for the home
customers. Nor does the welcome screen log you on, it passes it to
windows for you to login in the normal NT way. Home is all smoke and
mirrors.

It may be "idiot talk" to you but that's exactly what it is called in XP
the control panel applet for creating users.

Steve

 

[David Candy]

Exactly, that my point. It's called limited user and it creates a user as there is no such thing as limited user. How does the welcome screen tell if you need to enter a password, it tries to logon without one. Better not count failed attempts and lock the user out eh.

 

[NobodyMan]

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Exactly, that my point. It's called limited user and it creates a user as there is no such thing as limited user. How does the welcome screen tell if you need to enter a password, it tries to logon without one. Better not count failed attempts and lock the user out eh.

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Have you ever used a password protected account in Home? Reading this
I'd guess NO.

If the account you click on is protected, a box appears asking you to
enter a password. It doesn't try to "logon without one."

Care to try again?

 

[David Candy]

Would you care to try again? How would some program know if you have a password. By trying to log on without one. That's how it knows to show the password box. It has no access to passwords.