[Manifold-l] Another request for advice re installation!

[adamw at manifold.net]

> The issue centres around a 7x installation that stopped working as
> soon as the PC it is on joined a domain. On starting it is coming up
> with some nonsense about the user not having sufficient rights to
> permanently install the software (why, when it's already installed??).
> Having tried reverting to running it under the PC's own administrator
> account it also gives the same message.

This looks like an issue with permissions on registry keys. Joining a domain is a complex procedure which usually involves elaborate changes to permissions. For one thing, joining a domain usually means changing the interactive user account under which you log in and the new user account almost never has the exact same permissions as the old user account, regardless of whether or not either of these accounts is named Administrator or is a member of the Administrators group.

Try the following:

Log in with the user account you used to install Manifold - presumably, the local Administrator account. Open Registry Editor (Start menu - Run - REGEDIT). Select the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - CDA International. Invoke Edit - Permissions. Allow Everyone read permissions. Select the Manifold System key under the CDA International key and allow Everyone read permissions on that key too. Log out and log in using your normal user account. Try launching Manifold. Does it work now?

I assume you are not using a license server. If you do, the problem is most likely related to permissions on the configuration file which provides the address for the server.

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Adam Wachowski
Manifold Development Team