On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Horton, Robin wrote:
< Greetings,
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< 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.
(w)XMaxima is a gui front-end to Maxima and communicates with Maxima via a
socket. It sounds to me like your new security measures may be
preventing this socket from being opened.
When a regular user opens XMaxima, do you know if Maxima is successfully started and the
socket is opened?
There may be other possibilities, but this sounds the most likely.
Leo
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< If I run this in an admin account, I get the license notice as appropriate.
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< 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".
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< Attempting this from an admin account works appropriately.
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< 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.
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< Again, doing this as admin works fine.
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< 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?
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< I also attempted to add maxima and wxmaxima to the DEP list in the event it was related.
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< Thanks for your time,
< Robin
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