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WinXP and FRx Reporting

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by danielsdunham

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Has anyone had any luck installing FRx Reporting (Dynamics - Great Plains) software with Windows XP? When running the program as domain admin., it runs fine. All other users get an error and told the program will now quit. When installed as a domain user with Local Machine administrative rights, the program fails to self-register all .ocx's. When installed as administrator of domain, it doesn't register about 5 .ocx's.

Went through (based on Great Plains knowledge base) and registered those 5 .ocx's, still have same problem. Eventually walked through every article pertaining to this on Great Plains website, did not work. Anyone?

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by supermcse

I have FRx running on a few XP and 2000 workstations in a domain I adminsiter. The users are reiliable enough and the domain is secure enough that I have made each of them administrator of their own workstations. This resolved issues with older versions of software tat they were using as well as making installation and rights issues go away. I don't know if your environment would allow you to test this theory or not, but it sure went well in mine.

by danielsdunham

That was the first thing I tried. I have made the user a local administrator of the machine, which would normally work. However, they get the same error message. The administrator account on the machine (or domain admin) can make it work, but nota user who is made a local administrator.

by joseph moore

It sounds like you need to open up Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy on the Win2K machines.
Expand Security Settings -> Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment.
I think that somewhere in the list of rights is one right that Administrator is a member of, but Administrators is NOT a member of. To that right, add Administrators.
Then, with your logged user who is also a member of the local Administrators group for that machine, the software might work!

Good luck

by acattr

Many applications are not NT aware. Some require the user to have read/write access to the installation folder"ex. c:\program files\FRx Reporting".

Some programs also require read/write access to curtain registry keys. YOu can use regedt32.exeto assign permissions over registry keys. Which keys to assign permissions depends on the application.

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