On Apr 16, 10:48 am, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16/04/2010 2:40 PM, sniffer wrote: > > > Thanks Mark, > > just one question does the explanation given above by you also apply > > to winxp systems in a domain, > > Yeah - IIRC, domain users can't change much of the registry by default, > primarily as they aren't in the 'administrators' or 'power user' groups > by default like local users are - but it all depends on various security > policies and attributes of each user. > > > if so then what is the minimum level of > > user rights required for the com server to run without hiccups. > > Any user can *run* the server - just not all can register it. To > register it, the user needs the ability to write to the > HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive in the registry. This is the same problem > forcing may installation programs to insist on being run as an > administrator even if the program itself doesn't need to be. > > Cheers, > > Mark
Thanks Mark for all your help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list