Problem with Nero 5.5

[jfall]

I have Nero 5.5 installed on Windows 2000 Professional. Everything works great except being the administrtor, I am the only person who can burn. Anyone else who is not an admin does not have the rights. I have read through the Nero Help file and it says that if you click File > Preferneces there is a `security` tab where you can set groups. I have checked, but I do not have this `security` tab, and I am logged in as admin and it was installed under the admin account. Any ideas?

 

[jfall]

^

 

[BlakkIce]

are the other users power users easy cd does that too

 

[DrZone]

make sure the drive letter of the cd burner is accessable to all users

 

[SUOrangeman]

This is a case where I use the "Run As..." service (shift + right-click on the Nero shortcut/executable). I have NEVER successfully burned a CD with ANY burning app in WIN2K without ADMIN privileges. At least with "Run As...", I don't have to log out just to burn.

-SUO

 

[jfall]

Well, Nero states in it's help files the following:

"Under Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 there must be a way to handle the security aspects of CD recording. CD premastering software like Nero must be able to send SCSI/IDE commands to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives or CD recorders capable of writing on CDs. However, from the operating system's point of view, being able to send SCSI/IDE commands to devices is a huge security problem, because software could use the SCSI/IDE commands to format the harddisk, read other user's data or create other severe problems. That is why Microsoft decided to allow low level driver access only for programs running with administrator rights. This also is why Nero 5.0 could burn CDs only under the administrator login.

Now, let's assume the situation of a Windows NT4 or Windows 2000 PC in a network environment and with many different users. Security considerations make it absolutely impossible to grant administrator rights to all. So firstly, there must be a way to allow CD recording for non-administrators and being able to decide which users may record CDs and which users may not.
The way Nero solves this problem is to allow system administrators to assign during installation a group of users the rights to record CDs on the system. If an administrator wants to allow or disallow CD recording for certain users, it is enough to make the user member of this group or to remove the group membership of that user. If everybody should get the right to record CDs, the recording rights should be assigned to the group "Users".

In some situations, it might be convenient for the administrator to change the group assigned CD recording permissions. Nero has a new property page with title "Security". This page can be opened by using the menu command "File"->"Preferences". Administrators may edit and normal users may only view the group name of the users, that have the permission to burn CDs. Any changes of these settings become effictive after the next system restart. Uninstalling Nero will cause the recording CD rights to be removed again."


The only problem is, I do not have the Security tab in Nero 5.5 under File > Preferneces, I have tried re-installing many many times.