Are you able to script 'run as' to run the command as an administrator and
review what error you receive? This will allow you to pass the username and
password of an account with higher access.
James
"ejmichaud@xxxxxx" wrote:
Quote:
> On Feb 27, 7:38 am, jamesvdm <james...@xxxxxx>
> wrote:>
> I reviewed the information on the link above and found no useful
> solution to this problem I have run into. I have tried this on
> several Vista machines, all with exactly the same results.
>
> Here is what I did in detail:
> 1) Install Vista (Windows Vista Business edition), computer added to
> Domain
> 2) From Local group policy (gpedit.msc) set the startup script to run
> the following code:
> REG load HKU\DefUser C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat
> Pause
> 3) From Local group policy set "Computer Configuration\Administrative
> Templates\System\Logon\Always wait for the network at computer startup
> and logon" = Enabled
> 4) From Local group policy set "Computer Configuration\Administrative
> Templates\System\Scripts\Run startup scripts asynchronously" =
> Disabled
> 5) From Local group policy set "Computer Configuration\Administrative
> Templates\System\Scripts\Run startup scripts visible" = Enabled
> 6) Reboot
>
> On boot I see the following consistently on all VISTA computers I have
> tested:
> ---- Start of output ----
> C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Startup>reg load HKU
> \DefUser C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat
> ERROR: A required privilege is not held by the client.
>
> C:\windows\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Startup>pause
> Press any key to continue . . .
> ---- End of output ----
>
> After logging in, if I run the same script (Run as Administrator) it
> loads the hive as expected.
>
> There seems to be some permission or privilege that the SYSTEM account
> doesn't have that is required to load a registry hive with a startup
> script on a VISTA machine.
>