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How do I make the Control Panel inaccessible to certain users in Win2k?

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Antoneo

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I have made a user for my younger brothers to user but I don't want them to touch the settings of IE, mouse, display, you know all that stuff in the Control Panel.
How do I set the profile up (or whatever I have to do) so that they can't access it?
Also, what does "Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object" mean? Sorry I am new to win2k.
 
If you create a new username and make it a member of the "User" group, then they won't be able to access the Control Panel. Open "Users and Passwords" in the Control Panel, click the Advanced tab, then the Advanced button midway down. In the new window it brings up, click the users folder. Then in the right pane, right click and choose "New User". Fill in the username, etc. and click "Create". That account will by default be a member of the "User" group. Then just have them log in as that username.
 
actually members of the users group can access the control panel and change things. but they shouldnt be able to uninstall software, and any modifications that they make to say the mouse or IE only affects their profile and not yours. members of the users group cannot make "system wide changes," which is changing ip, uninstalling software, modifying the more important folders, changing permissions, etc .... unless you changed the default permissions of the folders and objects.

if you really want to deny them access completely to control panel, you would have to use local group policies. this affects every user, even the admin. access group policies: start > run > mmc > console > add/remove snapin > add > group policy. you can disable or enable a lot of other features here other than control panel options.

as for the inheritable permissions, this applies to that object "inheriting" the permission(s) of the folder it is in. say you have a folder that has full access to everyone, then everything in that folder also has full access to everyone w/ that box checked.


 
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