application needs to write to windows directory

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Hi

We just setup a win 2000 server and are slowly upgrading our users to XP.

The problem we have is an old application needs to write to a .ini file in the windows directory but the domain users do not have security to do this. What would be the best way to give them write access to this .ini file without giving them any other permissions.

Thanks
 
it depends on exactly what the application is looking to do. If the .ini
file already exists, I don't see why you wouldn't just alter the file
permissions on that particular file.

If the application needs to create the ini files, then the situation would
be an extra step. You'd need to logon as a local admin and then run the
application so that it creates the required .ini file and then alter the
file permissions on that .ini file.

HTH,
Katherine

KN said:
Hi

We just setup a win 2000 server and are slowly upgrading our users to XP.

The problem we have is an old application needs to write to a .ini file in
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the windows directory but the domain users do not have security to do this.
What would be the best way to give them write access to this .ini file
without giving them any other permissions.
 
Thanks for your reply

The file already exists it just needs to write to the .ini file when it starts up.

Would it be possible to do this from the server? If so how? I do not want to have to set down at each desk top and change file permissions.
 
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