JonnyThunder Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 Hello,Some of you may have seen the problem with unattended installs, that if you make the average user a poweruser they cannot install printers without the wizard (which means no unattended install of printers). This is a problem for lots of reasons, but it's unfortunately by Micro$oft design. Anyway, I trawled through pages here on MSFN for a solution and although I did see some ideas - none of them were really a clean way to do things. I've finally found a way of doing it nice and clean - you'll forgive me if it's already been posted before.OK, so here's what I did....1. Download and install this package from Micro$oft website (it's admin tools for Win2003 server)2. Copy the file ntrights.exe to a folder on your unattended CD. I put mine in %windir%.3. Use either a firstrun reg key or cmd file to do the following.... %windir%\ntrights.exe -u "Power Users" +r SeLoadDriverPrivilegeThis will add the power users group for the Load / Unload Drivers local security property. And thats all you gotta do. Like I said, I saw lots of reg hacks and suchlike, but was never sure if they were 100%. We've tested this solution and it works perfectly (even with Novells NDPS which also failed due to rights).Hope this helps someone,JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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