This isn't a flash development question, but I can't find anywhere else to post this so hopefully soembody can help me. I deployed Flash Player 9.0.115.0 to about 300 Win XP machines here app 3-4 months ago. I had assumed that because users don't have admin rights they'd never get prompted to update.
They were all working fine until one day users started reporting that they were being prompted to update. And anybody that did try to update after being prompted failed because of not having admin rights.
I've since discovered that these settings are controlled in mms.cfg under C:\WINDOWS\system32\macromed\flash (on Win XP which is what we're running). I've created the file (with UTF-8 encoding) on my test machine and put AutoUpdateDisable = 1 in the file and opened the adobe settings manager. But the "Notify me when an update ..." check box was still on, and I could turn it off and one again if I wanted to.
I then read somewhere (3rd party site) that the mms.cfg will not be reflected in the settings manager (ie the settings in the mms.cfg will be used, but won't be reflected in the settings manager) and that I should try the procedure at the bottom of this link instead to confirm (Testing auto-update notification settings):
So I put AutoUpdateDisable=0 and AutoUpdateInterval=0 in mms.cfg and opened a site with flash, but there were never any connections to fpdownload.macromedia.com in netstat. I've gone over my settings several times but it never tries to connect to that host, despite the fact that the above links says it should. Can anybody help me out with this at all?
Irish Poetry - Karen O'Connor
Irish Poetry and Short Stories - Doghouse Books
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They were all working fine until one day users started reporting that they were being prompted to update. And anybody that did try to update after being prompted failed because of not having admin rights.
I've since discovered that these settings are controlled in mms.cfg under C:\WINDOWS\system32\macromed\flash (on Win XP which is what we're running). I've created the file (with UTF-8 encoding) on my test machine and put AutoUpdateDisable = 1 in the file and opened the adobe settings manager. But the "Notify me when an update ..." check box was still on, and I could turn it off and one again if I wanted to.
I then read somewhere (3rd party site) that the mms.cfg will not be reflected in the settings manager (ie the settings in the mms.cfg will be used, but won't be reflected in the settings manager) and that I should try the procedure at the bottom of this link instead to confirm (Testing auto-update notification settings):
So I put AutoUpdateDisable=0 and AutoUpdateInterval=0 in mms.cfg and opened a site with flash, but there were never any connections to fpdownload.macromedia.com in netstat. I've gone over my settings several times but it never tries to connect to that host, despite the fact that the above links says it should. Can anybody help me out with this at all?
Irish Poetry - Karen O'Connor
Irish Poetry and Short Stories - Doghouse Books
Garten und Landschaftsbau