Having issues printing from C:\WINNT\TEMP

Hi,

I'm no network admin but this one is hard to get for me. A lot of computer
Windows 2000 SP4 clients when printing from Outlook or Internet are getting
blank pages. Now I know that with administrator rights or by adding Domain
Users write access on the C:\WINN\Temp folder the problem is solved.

However I don't think this is standard behavior to add Domain Users on that
folder and we all know that making users part of the admin group is a
security issue. This is what the Default Permissions look like on all
computers including the ones having the issues. One last note to have is
that we did change the Windows Env. variable TEMP value to point to C:\TEMP
instead of C:\WINNT\TEMP. This allows a application to run without needing
admin rights.

Administrator (Computer\Administrators)
Creator Owner
Power Users (Computers\Power Users
System
Users (Computers\Users)

Falcon1
Fri Feb 23 14:20:10 CST 2007

I forgot to add:

Any help will be appreciated and thank you in advanced!
Gabriel

"Falcon1" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm no network admin but this one is hard to get for me. A lot of computer
> Windows 2000 SP4 clients when printing from Outlook or Internet are getting
> blank pages. Now I know that with administrator rights or by adding Domain
> Users write access on the C:\WINN\Temp folder the problem is solved.
>
> However I don't think this is standard behavior to add Domain Users on that
> folder and we all know that making users part of the admin group is a
> security issue. This is what the Default Permissions look like on all
> computers including the ones having the issues. One last note to have is
> that we did change the Windows Env. variable TEMP value to point to C:\TEMP
> instead of C:\WINNT\TEMP. This allows a application to run without needing
> admin rights.
>
> Administrator (Computer\Administrators)
> Creator Owner
> Power Users (Computers\Power Users
> System
> Users (Computers\Users)

Falcon1
Mon Feb 26 09:30:05 CST 2007

I've made huge progress, however I need someone's help in explaining this to
me. I found out that by deleting the users TEMP and TMP variable Outlook and
Internet doens't use the System Variable TEMP C:\TEMP and TMP C:\WINNT\TEMP.

We did not modify the security on the System Variable so how come it's
telling me it can't access the Sys. Var. folders when the default security is
in place?

So for now we will need to had a User Var. TMP pointing to C:\TEMP. The
default TEMP User Var is not been use for printing by Outlook and Internet.

I hope to get a answer from anyone!

Thanks

"Falcon1" wrote:

> I forgot to add:
>
> Any help will be appreciated and thank you in advanced!
> Gabriel
>
> "Falcon1" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm no network admin but this one is hard to get for me. A lot of computer
> > Windows 2000 SP4 clients when printing from Outlook or Internet are getting
> > blank pages. Now I know that with administrator rights or by adding Domain
> > Users write access on the C:\WINN\Temp folder the problem is solved.
> >
> > However I don't think this is standard behavior to add Domain Users on that
> > folder and we all know that making users part of the admin group is a
> > security issue. This is what the Default Permissions look like on all
> > computers including the ones having the issues. One last note to have is
> > that we did change the Windows Env. variable TEMP value to point to C:\TEMP
> > instead of C:\WINNT\TEMP. This allows a application to run without needing
> > admin rights.
> >
> > Administrator (Computer\Administrators)
> > Creator Owner
> > Power Users (Computers\Power Users
> > System
> > Users (Computers\Users)