I would never ever grant permissions to public, set up a few groups like READ_ONLY READ_WRITE and app or what ever else you want, any table proc and so on...

This sounds like you have the RTM version of SQL 2005 server, if so then you will have to start the server with the trace flag of 1400. else you...

Hi there The NT administrators should be able to create you an admin group on your servers whereby you have local admin rights but you cannot see things like users....