Hi
I am struggling to find out why normal users can not launch IE 6 or Windows Explorer. If the user is added to the Administrators group these apps launch OK. I reconfigured the server to allow users to login to it so that i could do some tests but i can't even get into windows unless the user is in the Administrators group. It stops with an empty screen. If i press ctrl alt del/end i can get to task manager and run apps like notepad, regedit, cmd. It does not do anything though if i try to run explorer or iexplore. It sometimes produces the following log entry in event viewer..
Source: Application Popup
Event ID: 26
Application popup: Connection Error : The desktop you are trying to open is currently available only to administrators. Contact your administrator to confirm that the correct settings are in place for your client connection.
I have not found anything on the web to help with this and my particular issue though.
If i replicate these actions on a server in the same OU everything works as expected.
The only difference i can find is that when i do a gpresult it returns with a N/A result for...
Roaming Profile
Local Profile
Group Policy was applied from
Group Policy appears to be working OK though because the changes i made to allow me to open Task Manager as a user were applied.
I've run Regmon, Filemon, ProcessMon and not found anything. I have also given the test user Full Access to the C: drive and to the registry but it didn't make a difference. The Local Security Policy is the same for both the working server and the non working server.
Hope you can help as i am now stuck!
Thanks in advance
I am struggling to find out why normal users can not launch IE 6 or Windows Explorer. If the user is added to the Administrators group these apps launch OK. I reconfigured the server to allow users to login to it so that i could do some tests but i can't even get into windows unless the user is in the Administrators group. It stops with an empty screen. If i press ctrl alt del/end i can get to task manager and run apps like notepad, regedit, cmd. It does not do anything though if i try to run explorer or iexplore. It sometimes produces the following log entry in event viewer..
Source: Application Popup
Event ID: 26
Application popup: Connection Error : The desktop you are trying to open is currently available only to administrators. Contact your administrator to confirm that the correct settings are in place for your client connection.
I have not found anything on the web to help with this and my particular issue though.
If i replicate these actions on a server in the same OU everything works as expected.
The only difference i can find is that when i do a gpresult it returns with a N/A result for...
Roaming Profile
Local Profile
Group Policy was applied from
Group Policy appears to be working OK though because the changes i made to allow me to open Task Manager as a user were applied.
I've run Regmon, Filemon, ProcessMon and not found anything. I have also given the test user Full Access to the C: drive and to the registry but it didn't make a difference. The Local Security Policy is the same for both the working server and the non working server.
Hope you can help as i am now stuck!
Thanks in advance