On Fri, 25 May 2001, John Morrison wrote:
> James,
>
> Good call, I went to the ORL directory and set the rights so that System had
> full control. I was then able to start VNC as a service again. Strange I've
> never had to manually do this before with VNC but now I feel better about
> patching the rest of my servers. I would hate to lose the control VNC has
> allowed me.
Sounds to me as if someone has decided to "lock down" the Program Files
directory on your system and has forgotten the golden
"Administrator+SYSTEM" rule!
Why Microsoft can't make these things pick sensible defaults out of the
box is beyond me. But I digress...
Cheers!
James "Wez" Weatherall
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