Install Process Monitor on the machine running the app (or a clean machine with the app installed) and watch what it does. It should detail the exact calls to registry, file system, and network resources. You should be able to identify exactly which DLLs, exes, and registry calls you need to modify the security on (or point to their app and say "it's broke").
*********************** Charlie Kaiser [email protected] Kingman, AZ *********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:46 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Help with /regserver > > Hehe...I doubt anyone has worked with it, it's a horrible car > wreck of an application called Universal Housing marketed by > a company called Civica. Their own support teams are useless, > and because we have a virtual Citrix farm with AppSense and > mandatory profiles, they just blame our environment for any > problems they can't solve. > > According to them, the switch "registers uhm.exe so that w2 > bof can access it". When I pressed them to explain this > gobbledegook further, I was met with a wall of silence which > is continuing now. One of their top consultants was on site > yesterday and after looking at the error helpfully concluded > that he wasn't a Windows guy. This pathetic lack of support > is the reason I threw it out on the list in the hope that the > /regserver switch did something generic that I could track to > a registry key or file. > > I truly hate this software. Some of their report fields are > called From and To which stop reports from running because I > think they correspond to SQL commands....I've worked with > some rubbish, but this could be one of the worst. > > Happy days! > > > 2009/8/18 Christopher Bodnar <[email protected]> > > > It could be doing anything. Switches are hard coded in > the application. The developers can create any switches they > want, to do anything, and call them whatever they please. You > should really ask the application vendor what the switches do. > > > > What is the application? Maybe someone on the list is > familiar with it, and can give some advice. > > > > Chris Bodnar, MCSE > Sr. Systems Engineer > Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services > Guardian Life Insurance Company of America > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 610-807-6459 > Fax: 610-807-6003 > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:12 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Help with /regserver > > > > Hi guys / gals > > I have a (POS) application that, unsurprisingly, is > vital to our business. The company that manufacture said app > have decided that they need to use a special executable to > run it, which keeps the version updated. It's a FoxPro app > (blech) and for some reason, when they run it, the first > thing it does is call the main executable with the /regserver > switch. I'm not sure what this does, and would appreciate it > if someone could educate me, because unless you run it with > admin rights (which ain't happening on my watch), the thing > fails with the error "Visual FoxPro could not start. Could > not load resources". Running with admin rights - all OK. > > I've been looking at process monitor output all > afternoon and can't work out what it's doing, I've been > messing about with registry permissions and file permissions > for what seems like an eternity. The great Google-God appears > short on inspiration (for me, anyway). Can anyone tell me > what this mysterious /regserver switch does, as I am sure > something in our mandatory profile is preventing it from executing? > > As always, thanks gratefully provided in advance. > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr > Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the > right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend > the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > This message, and any attachments to it, may contain > information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from > disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this > message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that > any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or > communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this message in error, please notify the sender > immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any > attachments. Thank you. > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if > you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right > answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the > kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
