Re: Jinitiator on NT4 needing Admin rights

Yes this has been a known issue for a couple of years. You should look into using a more current jinitiator for support reasons if not other bugs. I know some products require specific versions of jinit, if this is your situation, you should check with the vendor for an updated version compliance.

Kevin

"paul" <ask_at_me.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me on this one. I'm rolling out the Jinitiator
> (1.1.7.27 on IE 5.5sp2) on about 120 Windows NT4 boxes. On some (but not
> all) of the systems when they connect to the webpage to launch Oracle the
> plugin will not start (nothing happens at all - just the Oracle logo and
> that's it).
>
> I've found that on these systems if I add them into the local
> administrators group on the box then the plugin works fine. But as soon as
> I remove them from the local admin group it stops working again.
>
> If I setup a new NT4 box following my usuall install list (Office, Winzip
> etc etc) then it works perfectly eveytime.
>
> I don't want to give all the users here local admin rights so I'd like to
> track down the cause. I'm guessing it's either a file or registry
> permission problem. But don't know where to start.
>
> Paul.
Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 06:01:04 CDT