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Quote nzmikew Replybullet Topic: Invalid Arguement CR XI
    Posted: 15 Aug 2007 at 4:58am

The problem. Goes something like this, take seat, this may take a bit of time...

 
On Terminal server

 

Login in user Andrew run report - does not work

Login in user Robin run report - works

Login in user Debbie run report - works

 

Compare Andrew and Debbie (Robin is select up as an administrator)

 

Found that Debbie belongs to group Domain Admin

 

Add Andrew to group Domain Admin run report it works

 

Remove Andrew from group Domain Admin run report it does not work

 

Go thought all objects that Domain Admin has access to and make sure that Domain Users has access to them and made sure same permissions.

 

So at this point Domain Users has access to same objects as Domain Admin and Andrew is member of Domain Users

 

Run reports - does not work.

 

Made sure c:\temp was property of domain users

 

Run reports - does not work.

 

Made Andrew member of Domain Admin - report runs

 

Did a test of user on local machine and terminal server, on local machine works fine on TS did not work, add them to group Domain Admin and it works.

 

Another interesting point. If selection was small report would run, but over half options, then it appears to be wanting to use local disk and it would appear that user does not have permission for the local disk.

 

Do you know what local directory Crystal is trying to use?????????????

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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 16 Aug 2007 at 5:08pm
TS severely limits the rights that non-admin users have to write to the drives in the server.  Crystal can do a LOT of churning to temp files while it's processing.  Your issue is probably due to the fact that Crystal is trying to write a temp file and the non-admin user has no rights to write files to the drive. 
 
You'll need to work with your network folks to see if there's some way to grant write and delete access to the user's temp folder on the server.
 
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Quote nzmikew Replybullet Posted: 16 Aug 2007 at 8:13pm
yes exactly, what I'm trying to find out is exactly which subdirectory is involved????
 
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 17 Aug 2007 at 8:36am
On regular Windows it's C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Temp.  I'm not sure how this type of temp folder is set up under TS.
 
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Quote nzmikew Replybullet Posted: 17 Aug 2007 at 2:17pm
Thanks Dell, have just re-applied group Domain Users to this directory on TS with full control - no change. I also went one layer up and applied it to \local settings - no change.
 
So question still needing an answer is on a terminal server machine, what directory is CR xi using for temp working folder????
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 17 Aug 2007 at 2:21pm
I'm not very familiar with TS, so I'm not sure what to tell you at this point.  Sorry!
 
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