escribe and user rights

[aga]

Hallo!

I installed express scribe 4.02 on a w2k sp4 machine and was very happy to have found a player which is able to play dss files too.

As far as I use it as administrator all works as it should. I can load and read my dss files (after installing dss32.exe) and all functions do what they should.

Now the problem is, that our users don't have admin rights.

When a "normal" user wants to play a file I have first to:

install dss32.exe as this user again

that's enough to be able to decode the dss files - but the user can't load files nor change any configuration options.

I tried to give the user full perms on the program folder and on the registry keys.

Now the user can load a file but it gets a wrong date (1970-01-04), no title and it loads and loads until I close escribe.

I tried to wait until 5xxx% (I really mean 5000 and more %).

 

Does anybody know if escribe is able to work correctly with normal user rights and how?

 

thank you very much

angela

[SoundByte]

Hi, we've had some small issues related to Express Scribe and lack of Admin rights on a workstation too - not quite the same as you, but related I think.

 

Do your users have full rights to the area that the dictation files are loaded??

 

We can load and play files from email attachments and local/network files, and users can change settings, we just can't do some things like "File" -> "Load Audio CD Tracks" - we just get a blank list where the tracks should be listed if they are not Administrators of the Workstation - so I think it's a rights issue over this device. Not sure though - only just realised that this was a problem today when someone wanted to do it.

 

Good luck fixing yours - I'm pretty sure it will be a rights issue on a directory or device.