Re: V6R1 System i Access troubles

["Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:57 PM,  <ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With that said, has anyone here installed V6R1 Sysem i Access and had any
> trouble with other apps running correctly afterward?  We installed it
> within a Windows 2003 Citrix/TSE environment and are now having trouble
> getting two other apps (IE7 and Global Spreadsheet Server) to work
> correctly unless the user running them is given an admin authority.

We're running System i Access V6R1 on Vista SP1, XP and WS08 TS (w/o
Citrix) without any troubles - all users without admin privileges, of
course.

There's lots of System i Access auto-start stuff that i disable,
because it can interfere with other applications, especially the
auto-update stuff that stopped working back when users no longer had
admin privileges (which was around 2000, i think).

For debugging permission issues, i highly recommend using Microsoft's
Process Monitor

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

It will take you a while to get used to reading and understand it's
output, but it can help you find out why a given application won't
work without administrative privileges. My experience thought me that
it's possible to run almost any application without admin privileges,
but it may take a whole lot of time to get it working.

Now, you say that IE7 doesn't without admin privileges - to me, this
indicates that permissions on Windows system directory must be broken
- this would be something that you could figure out pretty fast with
Process Monitor.