Win2K user restrictions problem. Help!

[Psylent]

We've got about 100 PCs here at work, and we have all users logging in as members of "Users". Recently however I've run into a little problem. A couple of the staff here need to be able to rip CDs to mp3s to send to people as demos of our work, but logged in as a User any CD Ripping software I've tried using (EAC/CDex/AudioGrabber) fails to work, we usually get the error message as something along the lines of "there was no answer from ASPI". Either that or the program just crashes HARD and I need to reboot the PC to get it working properly again.

I've tried granting more permissions to the WinNT, System32 and Program Files folders, and also to the HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft folder in the registry, but it hasn't helped at all.

If I log in as part of the Administrator group the programs work fine.

Funnily enough I can log in as part of the User group and rip to wma through Media Player

Anyone have any idea of what I can do?

 

[xchangx]

Try running the solution 1 from this website

http://cd-rw.org/articles/archive/aspisetup.cfm

 

[Psylent]

Thanks, but I've already done that. 🙁

As I said, it works FINE when you're logged in as admin, it just fails to work when you're logged in under the "User Group"

 

[blcjr]

Rather than granting "Users" more "permissions", you might try looking into the "rights" that are granted. Look for "User Rights Assignments" in Local Policies. And keep in mind that Local Policies get overwritten by GPO's if you are using Active Directory.

 

[Smilin]

Try either adding them to power users or putting the compatws security template in place:

(ignore the w2k3 stuff - works for 2k as well..)
816585 HOW TO: Apply Predefined Security Templates in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816585

 

[Psylent]

Originally posted by: blcjr
Rather than granting "Users" more "permissions", you might try looking into the "rights" that are granted. Look for "User Rights Assignments" in Local Policies. And keep in mind that Local Policies get overwritten by GPO's if you are using Active Directory.

Sorry if I'm not using the right terminology, I've only been messing about with User rights and since I started here a couple of months back so I'm still learning. I had a look through the User Rights and Security Options and couldn't find anything too much there concerning what I need to do.

Smilin: I'll try adding them to power users. Aside from that I'm going to plead complete and utter ignorance when it comes to security templates, I wouldn't even know what to set.

Thanks!