power user can't 'net stop spooler'

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David Turner

Whenever our people use our Brother combo printer (various drivers tried),
we get the oft mentioned UserEnv error and 'Saving Your Settings' delay on
shutdown or logoff. 'net stop spooler' fix works, but for some reason can
only be run as Administrator, not as either of two power user workgroups we
have set up (error when issued from command prompt). I would like to employ
the suggested logoff/logon scripts, but until our 'Power Users' can use
them, it does no good. Seems to be a permission issue, but I haven't a clue
what to change.

Suggestions?
 
David said:
Whenever our people use our Brother combo printer (various drivers tried),
we get the oft mentioned UserEnv error and 'Saving Your Settings' delay on
shutdown or logoff. 'net stop spooler' fix works, but for some reason can
only be run as Administrator, not as either of two power user workgroups we
have set up (error when issued from command prompt). I would like to employ
the suggested logoff/logon scripts, but until our 'Power Users' can use
them, it does no good. Seems to be a permission issue, but I haven't a clue
what to change.
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Hi

HOW TO: Grant Users Rights to Manage Services in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=288129

For method 3 in the article above:

A new, bug-fixed version of SubInACL.exe is available for download here
(Win2k/WinXP/Win2k3):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b
 
Torgeir,

Many thanks. After reading the articles, not sure of the impact of our
system(s) not being part of an AD/Domain. To your knowledge, are Method 1
(HOW TO: Configure Group Policies to Set Security for System Services)
procedures available via Gpedit.msc?
 
Whenever our people use our Brother combo printer (various drivers tried),
we get the oft mentioned UserEnv error and 'Saving Your Settings' delay on
shutdown or logoff. 'net stop spooler' fix works, but for some reason can
only be run as Administrator, not as either of two power user workgroups we
have set up (error when issued from command prompt). I would like to employ
the suggested logoff/logon scripts, but until our 'Power Users' can use
them, it does no good. Seems to be a permission issue, but I haven't a clue
what to change.

Suggestions?
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Check out http://www.citrix4ge.de/ctxsffaq/index.htm#prof regarding a
permanent fix for the Userenv problem, rather than the net stop spooler
getaround.


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certain maxims of archie; Don Marquis.

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Argh!!!

I was experimenting with the Subinacl utility at home where I am the *only*
user and wound up denying myself access to the spooler service!!

Anyone know any way I can reset permissions?
 
Argh!!!

I was experimenting with the Subinacl utility at home where I am the *only*
user and wound up denying myself access to the spooler service!!

Anyone know any way I can reset permissions?
Click to expand...

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/TIP3800/RH3896.htm

has the syntax for subinacl and

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/TIP3800/RH3897.htm

has a vb script for granting the right to manage all services.

HTH

--
John Thow
an optimist is a guy/ that has never had/ much experience -
certain maxims of archie; Don Marquis.

To e-mail me, replace the DOTs in the Reply-To: address with dots!
 
John Thow wrote
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/TIP3800/RH3896.htm

has the syntax for subinacl and

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/TIP3800/RH3897.htm

has a vb script for granting the right to manage all services.
Click to expand...

I was unable to use subinacl w/o getting an 'Access is Denied' error,
presumably because I had used /deny on my own account. I didn't try the
second tip because I was able to fix it myself by booting to Safe Mode,
logging on as Administrator and using subinacl from there to /grant needed
permissions to spooler -- whew!!

I know this is a Win2000 group, but my home system is running XP Home.
Strangely I was unable to logon as Administrator from a Logon screen
(password error even though null password), but Safe Mode let me in.

I won't go messing around on my home system for awhile <VBG>

Thanks for taking the time to chime in, though.
 
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... I was able to fix it myself by booting to Safe Mode,
logging on as Administrator and using subinacl from there to /grant needed
permissions to spooler -- whew!!

I know this is a Win2000 group, but my home system is running XP Home.
Strangely I was unable to logon as Administrator from a Logon screen
(password error even though null password), but Safe Mode let me in.

I won't go messing around on my home system for awhile <VBG>

Thanks for taking the time to chime in, though.
Click to expand...

Good to know you got there.

Merry Yule!


--
John Thow
an optimist is a guy/ that has never had/ much experience -
certain maxims of archie; Don Marquis.

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