office installation in domain

[Gary Roach]

i'm running a domain with a domain controller running samba 3.0.24 and
windows xp pro workstations. the user accounts are domain users. i've
installed office xp using the administrator account on the workstations.
when a user logs onto a workstation for the first time and runs an office
app, they get prompted to insert the office CD. i don't want this to happen.
i was told that if i install office as administrator, inidividual users
would not have to insert the CD. even if they do go get the CD, they're told
they can't install because they don't have permission. this is because they
are domain users and not domain administrators. i don't want ordinary users
to be domain administrators because then they can see the files of other
users that have logged onto that computer. how do i make these two problems
go away so that any user can log onto any computer and not have to have the
office cd and not have to be a domain admin? any help is greatly
appreciated.

gary

 

[Malke]

i'm running a domain with a domain controller running samba 3.0.24 and
windows xp pro workstations. the user accounts are domain users. i've
installed office xp using the administrator account on the
workstations. when a user logs onto a workstation for the first time
and runs an office app, they get prompted to insert the office CD. i
don't want this to happen. i was told that if i install office as
administrator, inidividual users would not have to insert the CD. even
if they do go get the CD, they're told they can't install because they
don't have permission. this is because they are domain users and not
domain administrators. i don't want ordinary users to be domain
administrators because then they can see the files of other users that
have logged onto that computer. how do i make these two problems go
away so that any user can log onto any computer and not have to have
the office cd and not have to be a domain admin? any help is greatly
appreciated.

gary

I responded to your earlier (duplicate) post - again, I ask you: what
operating system is the server running? You mentioned Samba, which
indicates some flavor of *nix - which one? Once you've answered this
question, we can go on from there.

Malke

 

[Gary Roach]

hi, i'm running samba 3.0.24alpha under redhat linux 9.