if you have a 2000 server, may be the domain group policies are preveting
you
installing any software. you can talk to your server administrator.

"Mike" <mike@officespecialists.biz> wrote in message
news:01aa01c33f3f$6a936540$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Have a new laptop running Win XP. I have 2 accounts
> Administrator and myself with Administrator rights on the
> local Laptop. Got the laptop hooked up to a domain. When I
> try to install a program off a CD I recieve a message
> something to do with not having admin rights. I checked
> the User accounts to make sure I had Admin rights. I
> checked the Computer management User accounts and It is
> set as administrator. I know that in Win 2000 I had to add
> the domain account to the local PC but in this case I can
> not install a program even on the local PC/laptop. What am
> I missing. The other day I was installing a new pc on a
> domain Win NT 4.0 with Win XP installed on the PC. We have
> Norton Corporate Edition on the server. I got to the setup
> Icon on the server and tried to run it but again got a
> message something about rights. I tried this with my
> server account with Admin rights Added the account to the
> local PC and no luck. I ended up adding the Administrator
> Account from the Domain with the same PAssword to the
> local pc user accounts. Then I got it to install.
>
> It GOT TO BE SIMPLE
> Please Help
>
> Mike ( MCP )