I don't think admin rights are necessary in order to run Recorder, just to get it set up in the first place. What you do need is to have the people logging in at the satellite to have read/write permissions on the server Recorder is held on, even if they are only querying the database. Although I am System Manager for the database I do not have admin privileges, which are jealously guarded by IS.

We currently have a MSDE network set up with about a dozen installations, half at head office and half at regional/local offices (don't think we've had more than 5 people trying to access it at once yet so not come up against that problem). One important issue seems to be the amount of time it takes to get connected to the database for those with lower bandwidth broadband.

(if none of this makes sense its because I can't find the IT guy who can explain it properly)

Gordon

Yes, we run most of our copies here without admin rights and for the most part it runs fine. There is a problem with a registry setting that sometimes gets changed at startup which requires admin right, but that is easily solved with a change of permissions in the registry. If you give all of your Recorder users permissions to edit the registry entry mentioned in that post you shouldn't have a problem.

Other than that, the easiest route to take is to give Full Control permissions to your Recorder users on the Recorder program folder, which usually gets installed to C:\Program Files\