(Slightly OT) W2000 Access Rights
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 11:14I have some very strange phanonemons here on my computer which also effects my chess programs. Therefore it is possibly not to off-topic and possibly someone with deep knowledge of access rights in Windows 2000 is around.
Background: Some months ago I put a second harddrive in my machine. On harddrive1 (the old one) are 3 Partitions: c:\ (System), d:\ (Programs) and e:\(Backup). On harddrive2 (new) there is only one partion f:\ with both system and program data. The partitions are between 4 and 15 GB in size. There are two W2K installations. One in c:\ and one in f:\. Besides the Administrator there are user accounts with limited rights.
Most of the chess stuff is on partition d:\. After I installed the new W2K in f:\ I sometimes had some problems to access certain files on d:\. After I (as Administrator operating from f:\) took ownership of all partitions, directories, subdirectories and files on the old harddrive and gave unlimited access rights to Everyone I thought the problems were solved. But I failed.
I was unable to run Ruffian (Access denied). It was even impossible to copy it. The only way to recover it was to reinstall it on the new harddrive from my backup CD. After that I deleted the files on the old harddrive but as I tried to delete the folder access was denied again.
Yesterday I tested Alex_WBTM and it went really crazy. WBTM was installed in the old harddive and I was broadcasting to tournament using TLCV. The result table was either invisible for visitors or totally scrambled and inreadable. I could reproduce that error even with a PGN cleaned up by PGN-extract. Although Alex_WBTM writes additional blank lines between the games the problem was reproducable even with a clean PGN. In addition the saved debugs in TLCV are broken. They simply stop after several thounsand lines and so I'm unable to determine wich program made a wrong result claim in a game Ruffian vs. Prodeo. However, the problem disappeared completely after I installed WBTM on the new harddrive and the result table in TLCV looks as expected.
The only difference is that the PGN is located on the old hardrive (error) and in the new hardrive (everything OK). Alex_WBTM was even unabled the store the tournament and I've seen an error message by Dr. Watson this morning. Something like "Process couldn't be terminated because it is already terminated". I'm going to retest Alex_WBTM.
The only possibility I see is to install everything on the the new harddrive and just format the old one (except partion c:\ of course). But maybe someone here knows a better way.
Regards
Volker
Background: Some months ago I put a second harddrive in my machine. On harddrive1 (the old one) are 3 Partitions: c:\ (System), d:\ (Programs) and e:\(Backup). On harddrive2 (new) there is only one partion f:\ with both system and program data. The partitions are between 4 and 15 GB in size. There are two W2K installations. One in c:\ and one in f:\. Besides the Administrator there are user accounts with limited rights.
Most of the chess stuff is on partition d:\. After I installed the new W2K in f:\ I sometimes had some problems to access certain files on d:\. After I (as Administrator operating from f:\) took ownership of all partitions, directories, subdirectories and files on the old harddrive and gave unlimited access rights to Everyone I thought the problems were solved. But I failed.
I was unable to run Ruffian (Access denied). It was even impossible to copy it. The only way to recover it was to reinstall it on the new harddrive from my backup CD. After that I deleted the files on the old harddrive but as I tried to delete the folder access was denied again.
Yesterday I tested Alex_WBTM and it went really crazy. WBTM was installed in the old harddive and I was broadcasting to tournament using TLCV. The result table was either invisible for visitors or totally scrambled and inreadable. I could reproduce that error even with a PGN cleaned up by PGN-extract. Although Alex_WBTM writes additional blank lines between the games the problem was reproducable even with a clean PGN. In addition the saved debugs in TLCV are broken. They simply stop after several thounsand lines and so I'm unable to determine wich program made a wrong result claim in a game Ruffian vs. Prodeo. However, the problem disappeared completely after I installed WBTM on the new harddrive and the result table in TLCV looks as expected.
The only difference is that the PGN is located on the old hardrive (error) and in the new hardrive (everything OK). Alex_WBTM was even unabled the store the tournament and I've seen an error message by Dr. Watson this morning. Something like "Process couldn't be terminated because it is already terminated". I'm going to retest Alex_WBTM.
The only possibility I see is to install everything on the the new harddrive and just format the old one (except partion c:\ of course). But maybe someone here knows a better way.
Regards
Volker