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John Hodgson
We had exactly the same problem. I found a workaround for us which is, as yet,
a bit clumsy but may be of help to you.
Our set up is NT4 w/s with Netware 5.1 NOS. The w/s are tightly tied down using
NTFS permissions and this is coupled with Netware policy packages. We use
Netware's DLU and user profiles are stored on our servers.
Having found that the local w/s administrator could use Advanced Filter with no
problems I tried all the usual tricks such as taking all restrictions off a w/s
and giving users full rights to HKLM. No joy. Concluded that it must be a key
in the administrator's NTuser.dat hive.
My workaround - logon as a local administrator equivalent. Copy NTuser.dat &
NTuser.dat.log from C:\winnt\profiles\administrator to a temp folder. Logon as
a Network Administrator and copy the 2 files into the user profile. In our case
- servername\users\students\username\Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Profile. The
user must not be logged in at this point or when they log out your efforts will
be over written. Next time the user logs in they can use the Advanced Filter
"feature" with no crashes.
This is obviously time consuming but luckily I have been asked to do this for
only 8 students who take an exam next week. As we have 6,000+ users in total, I
am dreading being asked to set it up for all users. Thus am trying to find out
exactly which keys are necessary for functionality so that it may be possible
to script it to run automatically.
a bit clumsy but may be of help to you.
Our set up is NT4 w/s with Netware 5.1 NOS. The w/s are tightly tied down using
NTFS permissions and this is coupled with Netware policy packages. We use
Netware's DLU and user profiles are stored on our servers.
Having found that the local w/s administrator could use Advanced Filter with no
problems I tried all the usual tricks such as taking all restrictions off a w/s
and giving users full rights to HKLM. No joy. Concluded that it must be a key
in the administrator's NTuser.dat hive.
My workaround - logon as a local administrator equivalent. Copy NTuser.dat &
NTuser.dat.log from C:\winnt\profiles\administrator to a temp folder. Logon as
a Network Administrator and copy the 2 files into the user profile. In our case
- servername\users\students\username\Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Profile. The
user must not be logged in at this point or when they log out your efforts will
be over written. Next time the user logs in they can use the Advanced Filter
"feature" with no crashes.
This is obviously time consuming but luckily I have been asked to do this for
only 8 students who take an exam next week. As we have 6,000+ users in total, I
am dreading being asked to set it up for all users. Thus am trying to find out
exactly which keys are necessary for functionality so that it may be possible
to script it to run automatically.