Users installing fonts

[Dillinger99]

Is there a setting somewhere in Group Policy Editor that would allow regular Users to install fonts?

 

[captaincrunch00]

Can the users get to the control panel?

If so, they can probably open up the 'Fonts' area and add a font to it pretty easily, right?

 

[Dillinger99]

Regular users can open Control Panel and attempt to install fonts, but they get a bunch of vague error messages about fonts being in use, etc. Power Users don't receive the same error messages and can install the fonts without a hitch.

 

[linney]

Have you looked at the Security Access Permissions of the Fonts folder in the Windows folder? Can you elaborate on the exact error messages the use is receiving?

 

[undrcovr]

If they can explore to %\Windows\Fonts, they can drag and drop the .ttf or .fon files in there.

 

[Dillinger99]

linney--that's a good point--I'll have to check that out. The errors they receive are the kind like "The font is currently in use" when it's not even installed on their system. They're the kind of errors I've seen when Windows doesn't want to say "Hey--you don't have permission to do this!"

My main goal for this is to remove Power User privileges for a specific group of graphics people, but I don't want to have visit twenty machines every time they buy a new font. undercovr, I've never had much success with merely dragging or dropping font files into the font folders. I can do that remotely with a script with haphazard results.