PDox7 and WIN XP Pro
Gaėl PLANTIN
Hello !
Which Rights should I set for a default user to run Paradox 7 or Runtime
Paradox 7.
I've set the compatibility mode to NT4, but when I'm not login
"Administrator", I can't run Pdox ?
Any Idea ?
Thanks
Gaël PLANTIN
Bertil Isberg
Gaël
<<
Which Rights should I set for a default user to run Paradox 7 or Runtime
Paradox 7.
I've set the compatibility mode to NT4, but when I'm not login
"Administrator", I can't run Pdox ?
>>
I don't have XP, so while you're waiting for those who have:
Which is you working directory and which is your private directory? Make
sure they are not subfolders to C:\Program Files.
Can you as user read the HKEY_LOCALMACHINE key in Registry? The BDE keys
are stored under LOCALMACHINE.
Can you run BDE Administrator (or BDE Configuration Utility) ?
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Steven Green
Bertil Isberg wrote:
> Which is you working directory and which is your private directory? Make
> sure they are not subfolders to C:\Program Files.
>
> Can you as user read the HKEY_LOCALMACHINE key in Registry? The BDE keys
> are stored under LOCALMACHINE.
>
> Can you run BDE Administrator (or BDE Configuration Utility) ?
it's my understanding that you need to be Administrator for any of those
three items to work..
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Steven
The only notes I have on this kind of problem with Paradox on Win XP
relates to XP Home
< FROM Ken Loomis July 2002 >
I don't know about WinXP Pro, but the Home Edition is a royal pain in
the butt and is not well suited to our Paradox applications. For anyone
writing apps for users likely to get WinXP Home, be prepared for a slew
of issues for which the Home Edition user is very unlikely to be able to
handle.
First, write permissions need to be set for the BDE, Paradox Runtime,
and your private directory. Second, our old friends the toolbar and
status bar config files are stored in different places for each user for
which the users may not have write permissions. If your Home user adds
a new user to the system, he or she may have to boot in safe mode and
grant permissions to that user for that file. It seems that this file
for is in different places for different machines.
</ FROM Ken Loomis July 2002 >
Working Directory and Private Directory should be found in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER, so it is possible to change it. Those settings can
also be overridden by the command line.
If the problem is Write access to the folder where IDAPI32.CFG is
stored, the file should be moved to a different folder than the default
one C:\PROGRAM FILES\BORLAND.... which ever it was in Paradox 7 - BDE 3.x
If other problems exists to launch Paradox under Win XP Pro, I must have
totally missed those threads.
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Anders Jonsson
> it's my understanding that you need to be Administrator for any of those
> three items to work..
If you run XP and is a member of a domain there is also "power user" or
something like this (don't know the English translation) which I _think_
will be "enough". Strangely that user type is not available in XP Pro if you
are on a workgroup! I think XP Home has it's own quirks...
Anyway, one of my clients have 20 sites, each with 4 workstations in a local
workgroup configuration with XP Pro. I have installed P10 runtime as
administrator, but the all log in with "limited" rights. I use the -p switch
to point to a priv directory (where they have full rights) and that works
without problem. So I _think_ that the read rights to the registry is not a
problem - the write rights to priv and the net-file is. As the NET-file by
default is in the root of C - that must be changed first - by an
administrator/power user - before the limited user can run Paradox.
FWIW
Anders
Bertil Isberg
Thanks Anders