Greetings,
I run a small computer lab in a University setting which has an installation of Maxima 5.19.2. I have a user who is attempting to use the software as he has for a while now. Unfortunately, I have recently been forced to rebuild my lab from scratch and institute a few new policies regarding permissions and access. It seems that due to these new policies and restrictions, Maxima does not want to play nicely.
This is all in Windows XP.
If the user opens maxima via All Programs --> Maxima --> xMaxima, it will open, but the typical notice does not show in the top field. I'm referring to the "Maxima 5.19.2 http://....(%il) that appears at the top. This also typically contains the noctice for using Lisp and the various license info. As it stands, the field is just blank.
If I run this in an admin account, I get the license notice as appropriate.
If the user attempts to integrate something, we get an error that seems to be fairly generic. I don't have the error in front of me at this time, but can recreate easily. I know there are keywords: "fail", "region", and "eval".
Attempting this from an admin account works appropriately.
If the user runs All Programs --> Maxima --> wxMaxima, and uses pretty much anything (specifically Calculus --> differentiate), it will crash and try to send an error report.
Again, doing this as admin works fine.
So I'm confident it is a permissions issue of some sort. I opened the entire Maxima folder in C:\Program Files\ to pretty much anything trying to test the issue out. I had similar problems with another piece of software that was trying to access tmp and failing. Does Maxima do similar? Is there another location I need to open up?
I also attempted to add maxima and wxmaxima to the DEP list in the event it was related.
Thanks for your time,
Robin
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