Re: Win2003 - Application cannot run except under Administrator

Not that I ran these two utilities and they have revealed nothing about the
problem. All permissions appear to be accurate and the program, as
previously stated, has no registry hooks so the only registry keys it tries
to access are default keys used by Windows.

Any other ideas?

--
Thanks, Jeff


"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> As with all permission-related issues, I would download FileMon
> and RegMon from http://www.sysinternals.com/. Run them as
> administrator (when no user is connected), start a TS session as a
> normal user and try to run the application.
>
> FileMon and RegMon will show you all "access denied" errors that
> occur, so that you can give your users the necessary permissions
> on a file-to file or Registry subkey basis.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
> *----------- Please reply in newsgroup -------------*
>
> "=?Utf-8?B?SmVmZg==?=" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on
> 05 aug 2005:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having an issue with a VB 6 application. The application
> > is very simple and takes information entered into a form and
> > builds a text file. From the text file, the application loads
> > the information into MailMerge fields on a Word document and
> > generates a long letter (legal) that is then saved and printed
> > by the user.
> >
> > This application does not have a traditional install with
> > registry hooks, rather it is simply an executable that reads a
> > DLL and uses an ActiveX control (.OCX file). When running over
> > Terminal Services 2003 (server 2003 service pack 1), the
> > application works perfectly fine under an administrative
> > account, but it crashes on the Merge function when trying to
> > open MS Word (2000) and placing the data into the MailMerge
> > fields, this being used by normal users and Power Users.
> >
> > I have attempted to run the application under the 'Relaxed
> > Security' configuration (considering it is technically a
> > 'legacy' application) and have even given the "Remote Desktop
> > Users", "Users", and "Power Users" groups Full Control to the
> > folder where the application lives and all files inside of it.
> > The application still fails on the merge.
> >
> > I have tried to run the application under Windows 2000
> > compatibility and have enabled the feature for
> > "non-administrators to run this program". I even added a
> > registry hook for the application as suggested in a KB article
> > (sorry I don't have the number handy). Nothing seems to allow
> > it to work for me and I was wondering if anyone had any
> > suggestions (our only other idea was to port the application to
> > VB.NET). I am new to Terminal Services 2003 / Server 2003, but
> > am an MSCE for WinNT4/Win2K.
>
.

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