rc3 without admin rights (1 Viewer)

[malerherbert]

i'll try with regmon. maybe it will work.
but i have to say: would be great when developers use settings per user so every user (with or without admin rights) can use mediaportal without any probs.

thanks

 

[malerherbert]

got it work now!
the problem was, that there is a folder named "TempSBE" wich is marked as systemfolder an so invisible. Normal users don't have write acces to this folder, but no information anywhere neither in error.log nor in mediaportal.log.

I've found that out with filemon.

now: full permission to TempSBE permitted.
this folder can be found in %RecordingFolder%\card1\TempSBE

but thanks anyway.

 

[wortelsoft]

Strange that those permissions weren't inherited from the parrent folder as it did om my system.

But hey it works that's the most important achievement.

Do note dough, that you're one of the few who run like this. So when you are having problems please check first if these aren't caused by running without admin rights.

 

[Galileo]

I'm also running without admin rights and it all seemed to work until I tried timeshifting. I set the permissions as above:

* Full access on program files\team mediaportal\
* Full access on recording folder and inherit file permissions
* Full access on the correct registry keys

Let's see if we can get this to work. I don't like to grant a computer admin rights when everybody is able to destroy nearly everything on the entire domain. There is the option of granting local admin rights which I will do if there's not alternative, but if it can run as normal user that would definately be much better security wise.

 

[Marcusb]

I think the timeshift problem is that MP uses the DVR-MS system with the StreamBufferEngine (SBE) to record timeshifting. SBE files are considered protected system files by windows (for some weird reason) and as such only an administrator can modify them.

I wonder if this also affects Win MCE?

True, though, it is kind of bad that MP has to run as an admin, but I do think it's due to MS (hey, it's pretty easy to blame them for everything ;-) )

People keep missing this, don't they.

MS makes the SBE files system files. MS also makes sure that only Admins can modify system files. Seems pretty cut and dry where the problem lies, but I have to keep repeating myself...
(not just here, but in other similar threads)