The better way to setup local PC administrator privileges for users who need to run 
AutoCAD is to create a group on the domain controller called AutocadUsers... Place 
all users who need to use autocad in this group.. Then on every PC that will run 
autocad go into the 'local users and groups' snap in and add the AutocadUsers group 
to the local administrator group.  This way any AutoCad user can login to any AutoCad 
PC and run autocad.. It prevents you from having to setup a dozen different user 
accounts on every PC.

Secondly, the above workaround is absolutely NOT the way that you should resolve 
this problem.  Who in their right mind gives out administrator privileges just because 
a company who produces multi-thousand dollar software can't produce it to work correctly 
in a corporate environment where not everyone is an administrator?  The answer is, 
NO ONE, because then they would have three times as much effort put out into supporting 
users who want to download free screensavers and adware and spyware and viruses and 
free games in a corporate environment where they are supposed to be working.  

The correct solution to this problem is to search the internet for the proper permissions 
that are needed on the local PCs to run AutoCad.. GURANTEED, the producers of AutoCad 
will have this information available, you are not the only one with this problem. 
 There are certain permissions that will need to be applied to particular registry 
keys, and files or folders.  After getting this information, you can go to the server 
and create a new group policy object and apply it to every PC that needs to run AutoCad.. 
In the group policy object you can specify registry, and file permissions that give 
every user in the AutocadUsers group ONLY the necessary privileges they need to operate 
AutoCad and those changes will be forced upon each PC.. By doing this on the server 
with group policy, a global change to every PC can be made without ever even touching 
them.  That is the way you properly solve this problem.  If you have any questions, 
ask, I've dealt with this way too much.







On Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 7:33 am, TOASTER wrote:

>You can still have an administrator account on a client machine at local level without 

>been a administrator on the server. If you access user accounts on the client machine 

>and set Marks domain account to administrator on this machine (depending how the 

>client was set up the user account may have to be added here). Now when you run 
Autocad 

>on the client machine it should work. And yes the licence is a serial number I agree, 

>but it can be transfered to another machine with the utility provided. 

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