On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 02:57:46 am fred.mosselmans@diamond.ac.uk wrote:
But having installed the latest Demeter release on my xp windows pc's on the beamline, I can use it fine but my users who log in to these pc's as themselves with few rights in the windows world cant. If they try to start the program the old dos window shows for milliseconds and that's it. I am sure it is a permissions issue for a log file or something so I have made the strawberry pearl directory full control for anyone but obviously I need to do something else as well.
Fred, I have been layed up with the flu for several days and my brain cells have not been functioning well enough to look into this (or the similar problem Carmelo reported). My moemory of how computers work at Diamond is that you have centralized administration. Among the many things that happen at installation time, a whole slew of environment variables and registry entries are added or modified. In the case of a centrally administered environment, I would worry that the changes that installer intends to make are not actually made available to your computer. What would happen if you tried to install, say, a different PDF viewer than whatever you have on your computer and to assign it as the default PDF viewer? Would that work? If not, then I suspect that you will need to talk to your IT people. In the short term, what do the log files (dathena.log and so on) in %APPDATA%\demeter\ say? What happens when you open a command prompt and type perl -V? For the latter, I am most interested in the list of paths under the @INC heading, which is the last thing written to the screen. B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/Demeter