I really wish I could answer your question... I fought with a Vista Business machine for more than two days, and there were more quirks than one could have imagined. I asked for assistance on this forum and on the CounterSpy forum, and none of the suggestions worked... (Note that I had scrubbed and re-built this once during this period.)
1. Despite sharing being turned on, and even with "UAC" being switched off, I could never gain access to any of its shared volumes (even as a DomainAdmin, who was also a local admin on that box). 2. As expected from #1, remote desktop sessions could not even connect. 3. We have a mission critical app which could only be run as a local admin (again, with or without UAC running). 4. Finally, come Microsoft Monday (that is, the day after Patch Tuesday), no updates had been loaded even with Updates set to run automatically. Launching WindowsUpdate as an administrator, it refused to check for updates. At this point, I decided this piece of crap has no business in a corporate network. It is now happily running XP. -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/10/2008 06:20:46 PM: > Sorry for the long post. > I am at my wits end with a Vista machine problem that I only saw > prior to RTM. > > Vista clients cannot set a server based default printer. No > errors, cannot change the default printer, and even in Apps when > selecting the printer, it will still only print to whatever is the default. > > You can switch the default printer between local printers no > problem. You can delete the network printer(s) and then add them > back and set them as default until a spooler reset or reboot. Then > you lose the ability to set them as default, and the default printer > has reverted to a local printer. If I manually add the printer > locally to the IP it works fine and I can set it as default, but at > that point it’s a local printer. > > At anytime you are able to print a test page to any printer > regardless of whether you can set it as default. > > Checked registry permissions on HKCU, user is a Domain admin, Local > Admin of the machine, UAC is off, tried it under the admin account > as well as user acct. Deleted all print drivers from the machine, > rebooted, reinstalled, same issue. > > No changes to the domain or server in months, has been using Vista > for at least 3 or 4 months, no updates to Vista in 1 month, and all > of a sudden it has begun happening. > > I am beside myself and google shows a wealth of the same issues > before RTM, but was reported fixed. This is a Dell OEM version. > My next step is to delete their profile and start again, which is > the only post I have seen that seemed to temporarily resolve the > issue for one guy. Anyone seen a similar issue? Or have a resolution step? > > Close to getting a bunch of Vista boxes, poster sized pictures of > Gates and sitting on his lawn with a .50 cal and showing him what I > think of Vista. > > Thanks > > Greg > > > > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
