- From: Harry Johnston <harry@scms.waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:51:01 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
Hi, Amaya 5.1 doesn't run in Windows 2000 (unless the user has administrative privileges). This is due to two similar but distinct problems: 1) The APP_HOME directory - where a user's personal settings are stored - is assigned by default to a directory in %windir%\profiles\$USERNAME. This is sometimes (though not reliably) valid in NT4, but is never valid in Windows 2000. Ideal solution: change the code to use SHGetFolderLocation (Windows 2000) or SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (NT 4) to find the Application Data folder, although in NT4 the call might fail depending on the shell version, in which case the next best choice would probably be $USERPROFILE. Second-best solution: change the code to use the $USERPROFILE environment variable instead of constructing the path manually. In Windows 2000, $APPDATA would be even better, as it allows for folder redirection (so that the data can stay on the server instead of being constantly uploaded and downloaded). Workaround for Windows 2000: in the [amaya] section of win-thot.rc, add a line reading APP_HOME=$(APPDATA)\Amaya In NT4 you could use $(USERPROFILE)\Amaya instead. 2) The temporary directories TMPDIR and APP_TMPDIR both default to using c:\temp which is usually valid in NT4 (though, again, not reliably) but not usually valid in Windows 2000. Ideal solution: change the code to use $TEMP as the default. This should always point somewhere writable. Workaround: I didn't have any success with adding settings to win-thot.rc. This may be another bug in the code; I'm not certain. In Windows 2000, you can use junction.exe available free from www.sysinternals.com to create a junction point (soft link) at c:\temp pointing to the current user's temp directory. If you create a junction point and make it writable by INTERACTIVE, the currently logged-in user can change where it points to. Either add the command junction c:\temp %TEMP% as a logon script, or create a script that runs this command before starting Amaya. This allows Amaya to run while presenting little security risk. Of course, if you aren't worried about possible security implications, you could instead simply create a directory c:\temp and make it world writable. Good luck! Harry. --- Harry Johnston, http://www.scms.waikato.ac.nz/~harry
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