Need administrator rights to save vi's

[MDT]

Hi,

in our department we've installed some computers with LabVIEW 7.1 and did an upgrade to 7.1.1. After the upgrade mass compiling was started. The problem now is that when a normal user (with non administrational rights) wants to use LabVIEW he/she gets asked if some certain vi's (subvis) shall be saved. But because he/she hasn't got administrativ rights this fails. Unfortunately in order to get to work with the simluation toolkit, LabVIEW needs to save some vis. Otherwise imprting of Simulink models will fail. Who can I solve this problem. Giving the normal user write access to the NI-Program folder is NO final solution since the computer pool is used by various students.

Thanks for the help,
Dietmar Winkler

[Mark H]

Have you mass compiled the toolkit VI's? Could this be your problem?

Mark H.

[Ray.R]

You are right.

You need read / write access to the folder. Those rights can be assigned to the folder by an administrator. It is inconvenient. We had to overcome this issue back in 2002. We were using Win-2000 and had allowed full access to the folder where the vi's resided. However, I seem to recall that there was another requirement concerning access to LabView folders. I will do a search to see if there was a posting on this.

JLV

[Ray.R]

You may also need to allow access to certain libraries, as discussed in this thread.

As mentionned in my previous reply, you can set individual privileges (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy) so that users can "load and unload" device drivers, vi's etc. Since the PC is shared, you may have to create a common folder that can be accessed by everyone. Humm... actually, you may not want that either..

Here is what NI has to say from their Knowledge-Base: click here

Hope this helps.

JLV