Application needs full permissions for Terminal Server? Help!

[Candidog]

I have an application that only works when the user has full administrative rights to the server/workstation. How do I give my terminal server users full local permissions to my terminal server without making them a domain admin or administrator?

I have Windows 2003 Standard Server with SP2.


Greg

 

[wdoellefeld]

I've solved these situations before by just granting permissions on the specific files that were needed (usually in system32). Not sure if it would work in your case obviously.

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[lhuegele]

Have you tried adding them to the local admin group on the server in question?

Good luck,

 

[Roadki11]

I wouldnt ever give admin rights to someone that isnt an admin even local admin rights on a TS is a dangerous idea. Ive had to do this many times for apps that arent really designed to run on a TS. It takes a little work and its helpfull if you have access to the app developer. Need to figure out what the app is really doing and grant access to those areas of the system its trying to access. It could be writing temp files to a location on the HD the users cant access, it might need to write or change registry values in the hkey_local_machine hive, they may just need more access to the program directory. Anyway, permissions can be tweaked just enough in all these areas so non-admin users can run the app with out giving away the farm.

RoadKi11