Well to help clarify it even more. I was only asking this question purely on the basis of how Windows NT and MapInfo work together. I was just making sure that there were no implications of setting the users privileges on the workstation with MapInfo on to say a Power User or Guest and they would still be able to use MapInfo with virtually no problems (except the ones we encounter for other reasons - another debate???).
I am not worried about users licenses since we have a corporate account with MapInfo with over 500 users. And that is someone else's job to look after! I do believe now I have gained enough insight from the various answers on here to say that there would be no problems with my original question! Cheers! -----Original Message----- From: Simon Gleadall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights Darrin, It is common for organisations to have multiple user accounts on a single PC for a variety of reasons. Whether a user has administritive rights on that PC is thoroughly academic in terms of his right to use the software. I work on systems where we have multiple accounts on each pc, one for people like me as a support person to use which has administrative priveleges and one for the users to use which has limited priveleges. So although there are multiple users there is still only one "real" user on that machine that will use the software. I think this is the scenario Jeffrey referred to. Regards __________________________________________________ Simon Gleadall Senior Analyst Programmer Hyder Business Services (IT Division) Tel: 01522 83(6122) Fax: 01522 516017 >>> "DPC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/04/2002 15:32:37 >>> Hello, I knew this was going to draw some questions after I hit "send"... First of all I want to make sure Jeffrey and no one else thinks I was accusing him of intentionally doing anything wrong - I was simply making sure that he thought about it before doing it. I'm also far from an expert on license agreements so maybe I'm interpreting it wrong. It sounds to me that the intention of having people without administrative rights accessing the software is that multiple people will be accessing the same software. The license agreement uses the term "Named User" which is either an individual person or a specific single terminal/computer/workstation. So unless everyone is actually sitting in front of the same computer, it seems to me that more licenses are needed. If I misunderstood the intentions of the original posting, I apologize. Nonetheless, it's never a bad idea to reconfirm that you are in compliance with license agreements. In the end of course, everyone should read it themselves and discuss with MapInfo if needed, not me. -----Original Message----- From: Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:12 AM To: DPC; MapInfo List Serve (E-mail) Subject: RE: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights Hello Darren, Could you expand on what Section 2 of the EULA does not permit users with less than Admin privileges? There are no doubt thousands of corporate users in the world who fall into this category as companies lock down their workstations to prevent the casual installation of software. I don't think there was anything in Jeffrey's post which suggested that he was going to install on to more machines than their organisation has licences for. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -----Original Message----- From: DPC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:52 PM To: Jeffrey Van Etten; MapInfo List Serve (E-mail) Subject: RE: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights I can't answer your question, but you should look up your license agreement to make sure you are allowed to use it the way you intend. The standard license says you can't use it the way you state (even if it's technically possible) unless you have purchased additional licenses - see section 2. Your org. may have a custom agreement. You also have to think about your data licensing which may or may not be the same as the software itself. No, I'm not a MI employee or stooge - I just think it's important for everyone to follow their license agreements to the best of their knowledge and if they can't then they shouldn't agree to it and should do without the product. -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Van Etten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:35 AM To: MapInfo List Serve (E-mail) Subject: MI-L MapInfo and administrative rights Does anybody know whether there are any implications for users of MapInfo 6.5 and/or MapBasic 6.5 and not having administrative rights on the computer? Would like to know for future users who will need to be set up on these apps. 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