NT4 User has no Sound But Admin Does!

[defixer]

Have some NT4 PCs that cannot be retired in a Public Library. On some of these PCs, sound works great as long as logged in as an Administrator. However, when logged in as user there is no sound at all. Could someone point in the right direction to solve this. These PCs are in children's dept and need sound for games. I've supported several versions of Windows, but not NT4 and am stumped!

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

[maxamoto]

Have some NT4 PCs that cannot be retired in a Public Library.  On some of these PCs, sound works great as long as logged in as an Administrator.  However, when logged in as user there is no sound at all.  Could someone point in the right direction to solve this.  These PCs are in children's dept and need sound for games.  I've supported several versions of Windows, but not NT4 and am stumped!

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You need to find out which files are required by the audio subsystem (dll, exe, etc) and give users full permissions on them. It could be as simple as finding the audio drivers in the Program Files dir and just granting them full perms on that, but more than likely you'll have to search them out.

[defixer]

Thanks. I've already taken that direction, but have no luck. I'll try to post more details tomorrow when I'm at one of the PCs.

[Noise]

The PC were probably created with a ghost image. You get weird stuff like this with imaged pc's.

Edited June 24, 2005 by Nois3