[Drango]

Are you running a 20 workstation environment without a domain/Active Directory?

Nope...see post #19 & 23 for an overview...I must say that when I couldn't get the permissions to work I threatened to strip off XP off and put 98 on the new boxes. Either that or give everyone full admin rights just so they could print. Wait, I did that once, (out of sheer frustration) and they still couldn't print to the local printer on the 98 box....Arrrrrrrrrgh

And don't get me started on why just one of the new XP boxes munges my logon script for one user but not the local administrator or other users?! All twenty machines are nearly identical in hardware, desktop and logon script!!!!!!!!!

And, and, and ...sob... my Norton Ghost is too old to run on XP and we are too cheap to upgrade. (Yeah, at my salary, my time is cheaper than a Ghost license!) I need a vacation....

[eno_]

I do software development, and everyone here has admin access to their desktop systems. I can't imagine living without it. I suppose some users are such morons they would not know the difference. But it would be incredibly frustrating - like asking the teacher permission to go pee.

I think it comes down to the fact that personal computers have never really been satisfactorily tamed for corporate IT use. IT apps should still run on terminals that are totally locked down. Sun had the right idea, but a chacteristically crappy Sun execution and lack of conviction in their own strategy.

[CyberCowboy777]

LOL! You do need a vacation.

Which version of ghost are you using? We had the same trouble with v 7.0 but found a work around - defrag the MFT table, then ghost.