Group Policy Access Denied

[swalesy]

Hi all,

I'm trying to implement some security for a C#.NET application using Microsoft's DPAPI code. It requires me to create a local user then to set some local user policies for that user. I've managed to do it at home on my own laptop without any problems, however the machine I use at work where I need to do the same, I can create the local user account, but whenever I go into Administrative Tools - Local Group Policies , I get a message :

You Do Not Have Permission to Perform this Operation
Access Denied

I've logged on locally as Administrator and still get the same error message, and I've checked with our Network people, we're not using Active Directory.

I've done some reading up on this subject on the web, and am still having problems.

Has anyone else come up against this problem or got any avenues for me to check out ?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[MrTBC]

Can you access it via:
Start\Run\"gpedit.msc

 

[swalesy]

No, I get the same error when I do that

 

[schubb2003]

If your work machine is in a domain it is very likely the domain admins have this locked down. You should speak with your companies IT and see if do indeed do this. We do not allow our users access to it for security reasons.