*solved* Policies that affect users, not admins in XP's gpedit.msc

[flippinfleck]

I've been looking at some of the options that you can enable/disable using the group policy editor.

My only thing is that any choices I make seem to be SYSTEM wide. Even when using an Administrator account, some of the restrictions put into place are still in effect.

Basicaly, what I want to do, is set it up so that these policies are in effect only for non-admin accounts. Is there a way to do this? Even when just changing the "User Configuration" settings, it's still system wide. I only want to restrict OTHER people!

Anyone have any idea's?

 

[stash]

The only way to restrict policies to certain users or groups is to join the machine to a domain. If your machine was on an Active Directory domain, you could use GPOs to restrict things on the machines. You then apply the GPOs to certain users or groups.

 

[flippinfleck]

Bleh!

No sense in going through all that trouble to prevent prying fingers from gaining access to my stash...

 

[stash]

If you just want to prevent people from getting into certain files and folders, just create different user accounts and use NTFS permissions.

 

[flippinfleck]

Yeah, I've got that set up.

What I was more looking at though, is in the | User Configuration | Admin Templates | Windows Components | Windws Explorer

In there you can restrict access to drives from My Computer, remove the "Map Network Drive" and such things.

Ah well, it's prolly for the better anyways...

 

[metallibloke]

Link These are Microsofts instructions for applying group policies to users except the administrator. Even though it says its for win .net server, they are very similar (if not the same) as the ones i had for w2k. Maybe there are instructions specific to XP, but i havent found them yet.

Hope that helps

EDIT: if only i had waited a few more seconds before posting!!!

W2K instructions (may work for XP)

 

[stash]

Nice link....learn something new every day

 

[flippinfleck]

Originally posted by: metallibloke
Link These are Microsofts instructions for applying group policies to users except the administrator. Even though it says its for win .net server, they are very similar (if not the same) as the ones i had for w2k. Maybe there are instructions specific to XP, but i havent found them yet.

Hope that helps

EDIT: if only i had waited a few more seconds before posting!!!

W2K instructions (may work for XP)

Tested and confirmed!

I used the W2K Instructions and they worked like a charm. Thanks so much!