samba - Nov 2001 - Samba PDC causing M$ office not to work

Hello,

I've set up samba 2.2.1a on a Linux box as a PDC for a  bunch  of
NT4SP5 clients. This works quite nicely. All applications work as
they should, except Office, which complains about  a  failure  to
initialize user32.dll. If I turn all users into domain admin, of-
fice works as it should. Some of the PCs run  with  FAT  (I  know
it's  bad,  but it was already so when I started to support their
network), others with NTFS, but  this  doesn't  seem  to  make  a
difference.  I'm not the M$ application type, so does anyone have
an idea that could help me, clueless as I am?

Mit herzlichem Gruss

                                        Andreas Mueller

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Andreas,

There was another thread on this just recently. The application is trying to
write to restricted parts of the registry (I've also seen this with
QuickBooks)...poorly written applications IMHO.

Instead of making all users Domain Administrators (very bad, as you know), I
add the group "Domain Users" to the client local "Power
Users" group. This
requires going to each client PC to make the changes, which may not be the
best option (depends on how may client PCs you have).

It may also be possible to use policies to accomplish the same result, but I
haven't tried.

Doug