On Jan 22, 2008 3:01 PM, MB Software Solutions < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ted Roche wrote: > > I'd also like to have some guidance on what the current best practice > is. > > We're supporting a 20-year-old FoxPro program that's grown through > > FoxBase and Fox 2.x and VFP and is both stable and mature. We're using > > the typical "loader" program to determine if there are updates by > > looking on the network and download the update and chaining to that > > one. We're running in /Program Files, but that's becoming a hostile > > environment; our most secure clients have had to specially-configure > > our directory to allow user read-write. > > > > What's the most efficient (cheap in time and cost) means of > > configuring this app to work with the new OS restrictions? > > > > > > > > > I've got a client in TX whose PCs are seemingly locked down and their > FabMate won't run. I've not encountered any other PCs like this. It's > Win XP iirc. Not sure if home/pro. When we logged in as the > Administrator, it installed and worked fine; but when we then re-logged > in as the regular user, it failed miserably. > > Ideas from the gallery? I told their outsourcing company (they have > someone come in to do their IT) that FabMate reads/writes to the > registry, the app folder (c:\Program Files\MB Software Solutions\FabMate > Standard) and inserts an auditing record into a MySQL database on the > web, hoping that knowing this, he'll be able to open whatever is > blocked/locked down. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VFP every network admins nightmare. So you need to read and write to the registry? Strike 1 Your running an audit of our usage of our product? Strike 2 Now your going to say that you want to slip in updates before we test them? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
