User Rights - Windows 2000

[Netopia]

Ladies and Gents,

I have a user who uses pcAnywhere to get into his work desktop from home. From time to time and for whatever reason, the pcAnywhere service gets stupid and quits, so he needs to restart it before he leaves for home.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have rights to restart it, so he has to shut down and reboot and then the service will start with Windows as normal.

My question is, is there some way to grant this person user rights to restart either just this one service or, failing that, all services? He's one of my more trusted users so I'm not too worried about him mucking around in things he shouldn't.

Thanks,

Joe

 

[pontifex]

the answer is in the correct forum

 

[Netopia]

DOH! I'm sorry. I don't know how I did that!

Mods, please feel free to lock this!

Thanks pontifex!

Joe

 

[sao123]

should be able to do it as a power user or an administrator.

 

[LeiZaK]

Originally posted by: sao123
should be able to do it as a power user or an administrator.

Yes, add him to the local administrators or power users group.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Just go to the Service Properties, go into the Recovery tab and change "First Failure, Second Failure, etc.) from "Take no action" to "restart the service".

 

[Netopia]

I'm not permitted to make him an administrator, but he is already a power user.

I also posted in the wrong forum and though I appreciate the answers, the should probably be put in the new thread in the OS forum:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1788942&enterthread=y

Thanks

 

[SagaLore]

Per this article, change the permissions on the individual service (or for all Services) at:

HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/*servicename*

Give your user full control.

 

[Netopia]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Per this article, change the permissions on the individual service (or for all Services) at:

HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/*servicename*

Give your user full control.

A BAZILLION thanks! I'll try that!

Joe