I excluded the AV, with no success. And no, we don't have group policies in place. I sent a log file made with one of the sysinternal utilities, but it's waiting for approval from the admin.
thank you All for your time and patience. -Gian Patrick Ernst wrote: > Hi GianLuca > > GianLuca Sarto wrote: > >> well, Greg, >> >> the question here is about trying to understand how Scribus works, and >> explain why it would run from an usb key but not from the desktop. >> >> After all this mailing list is about Scribus, not Samba. >> >> I have a fair knowledge about Samba, although I'm not a guru, and the >> user doesn't have any issue with any other application she runs, >> reading or writing, locally or on a Samba share. >> >> So what's the point in investigating Samba? >> >> -Gian >> > An awkward problem, to be sure. Samba is unlikely to be the problem. Do > you have Group Policies in place? These can restrict desktop users to > "approved" applications. It is possible that an anti-virus application > has put Scribus on a disabled list. These normally work by path eg > c:\program files\scribus\scribus .exe rather than scribus.exe alone - to > avoid renaming tricks. This could account for mobile scribus working - > different path. > > cheers > > >> >> Gregory Pittman wrote: >> >>> GianLuca Sarto wrote: >>> >>>> at the moment, she's using portable scribus from an usb key. >>>> >>>> This works. If I copy the usb folder on her desktop, it won't start >>>> again. >>>> >>>> I can't create another user, because we use no local users, only >>>> Samba users. >>>> >>> I think then that getting an understanding of how samba works is in >>> order. Maybe delete, reinstall or recreate the samba on her computer, >>> delete her samba privileges and recreate them. >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> scribus mailing list >>> scribus at lists.scribus.info >>> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090731/bc5b4160/attachment.htm>
