VFP 8 and Terminal Server 2003

[Keeper00]

I have a VFP 8 application that I have installed on a TS 2003 server using the "Change user /install" method. I was logged in as an admin user when I did the installation. The application works fine only if I use the Admin user account. When I create a typicall client account and log in, I get a error message that the Foxpro DLLs can not be found.

Any ideas on what the issue might be?

Thanks

 

[DSummZZZ]

Try running regsvr on your .dlls. They will be in the registry under the admins profile, but probably not the users'.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[Keeper00]

Dave,

Are you talking about registering the dlls for each individual user or for user group as whole? If it is the group, how would you do that?

Thanks,

Joe

 

[DSummZZZ]

Did you perform the install using an Installshield Express project? If so, you should been able to select the option to install for all users.

If you didn't, I'm not sure how to register them for all users other than running it for each profile manually.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[Keeper00]

I did not use installshield for the installation, I used a product called Wise. I swiched the TS into the "install" mode for the installation and then switched it back to the "execute" mode.

It still can not locate the foxpro dlls for a normal user.

 

[Scott24x7]

Keeper,
Dave is right. And even in the Install Mode, if it is set for admin only, that is the only place the DLLs will get registered.
The other answer is, no, you don't have to do it for every user, you just have to get them into the system registery, not the Admin users registry.


Best Regards,
Scott

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, and no simpler."

 

[Keeper00]

Scott,

The Dlls are registered, but only when I am an admin user. When I am a normal user, the dlls are not seen. So, how do I register these dlls for all users?

Thanks,

Joe

 

[christianne]

Try placing the dlls into the same folder with the fox executable.

Good Luck
Christi

 

[Steve Bowman]

Just for testing an idea, if you can add one of the users to the Local Computer Administrators group then logon as that user and see if the application now works correctly. If so your problem is purly permissions. In win server 2003 you no longer need to spacifically change into install mode like you did in 2000 and pre 2000 TS. I have run into your exact problem several times in the past. Without knowing your spacific situation like Domain or Non-Domain or Member Server and so on there will be several steps to correct. But first you would want to narrow down the true problem.

Steve Bowman
Independent Technology, Inc.
CA, USA