Cannot run mmc

[Roberto Ruiz]

Hi all,
I´ve been running Win2k server quite a while, but
incredible as it may seem, i had never tried using
administrative tools as a user who is not an
administrator, because previosly I was the only
administrator in my workplace. Now I´m managing a team of
administrators and I want to allow them to access AD users
and computers and other administrative tools without having full administrative privileges, but everytime i try to run any
application that uses MMC, including
an empty MMC, the system displays an error that states:
Temporary directory is not found or there is not enough
disk space. My administrators are members of server
operators, account operators and print operators, as such
they can log on locally but mmc will not run if I don´t
make them members of the administrators group, so I assume
it´s a problem of permissions, but i don´t know where are
these permissions missing. The WINNT emp folder allows
change permissions to the server operators group, so i
guess the problem is not there. I´d appretiate any help
with this.
Thanx,
Robert

[Mark]

Check the location of your temporary directory under environmental variables. You normally get this error when the temp directory has been set to one a user doesnt have full access to or doesnt actually exist.

HTH
Mark



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Roberto Ruiz at 5/3/2002 11:41:10 PM


Hi all,
I´ve been running Win2k server quite a while, but
incredible as it may seem, i had never tried using
administrative tools as a user who is not an
administrator, because previosly I was the only
administrator in my workplace. Now I´m managing a team of
administrators and I want to allow them to access AD users
and computers and other administrative tools without having full administrative privileges, but everytime i try to run any
application that uses MMC, including
an empty MMC, the system displays an error that states:
Temporary directory is not found or there is not enough
disk space. My administrators are members of server
operators, account operators and print operators, as such
they can log on locally but mmc will not run if I don´t
make them members of the administrators group, so I assume
it´s a problem of permissions, but i don´t know where are
these permissions missing. The WINNT emp folder allows
change permissions to the server operators group, so i
guess the problem is not there. I´d appretiate any help
with this.
Thanx,
Robert