Access Install

[bgmiller]

I know this is a forum for how to use access, although I thought since everyone uses it, you may be able to provide some help installing it.

Here's the situation:
I'm doing new installs of Windows 2000 SP3 and Office 2000 Professional SR1 on a bunch of computers.

Under Custom install for Office, I set Access to "Run All from my computer" so that it installs everything.

I'm able to open databases just fine from the local administrator account. Although whenever I logon with a network user account, it tries to do more installation for Access.

The network users do not have enough install priveledges and get the error:

"Error 1706: No valid source could be found for product Microsoft Office SR1 Disk 2. The windows installer cannot continue."

No other Office product runs into this glitch. I've also tried it with different databases.

The only way around it is to grant a network user local administrative access, logon, open a database and let the install run. I don't want to do this by default because that gives the users too many privledges on the computer. After it installs once with the network user, all other users work fine.

Has anyone run into this before?

Thanks

Brian

 

[jeremie_ingram]

I have seen this type of situation with the 2k OS, what you need to do is log into the workstation as admin, then under control panel set the users on the computer to have the admin rights, but they wont on the network. NOTE: this can be problematic w/ a NT server system the runs kix script.

 

[bgmiller]

The problem is, this opens up the users to be able to do anything on the local computer...install software, access settings, etc. I want to try to avoid this. Any ideas?

 

[jeremie_ingram]

Catch 22 my friend. You could try raising thier level, run it once so it can make the adjustments under thier profile, then lower it back.