demeter on xp access for all users
Hi I am sure this has probably been posted before but I couldn't find it on a rudimentary search of the mailing list archive- I think Bruce fixed it in a previous release after the course he gave at Diamond. I'd recommend it when the video comes out soon 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. Ta Fred Prof JFW Mosselmans Principal Beamline Scientist I18 Diamond Light Source Ltd Diamond House Harwell campus Chilton Didcot OX11 0DE E fred.mosselmans@diamond.ac.ukmailto:fred.mosselmans@diamond.ac.uk P 00 44 1235778568 M 00 44 7785510211 -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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 use Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) to build the installer. I was under the impression that the package could be installed for all users and doing so certainly works on the Windows 7 machine at my beamline. Here is the Inno script for making the installer. https://github.com/bruceravel/demeter/blob/master/win/inno/strawberry.iss I am happy to make a change so this works better for you, but I don't know what change to make. 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/~ravel/software/exafs/
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
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