temp file write access

[MickeyC]

We have just installed th product and think it is fantastic.

We have hit a snag though in the use of Tutor Control on a single machine with multiple users. When a user creates a policy or makes a change to the group set up the software wants to write to the ABControl directory in Program Files which it then translates into an ABControl.dat file on exit. (see error message attached).

We lock down the machines by group policy to limit write access to the machine's Program Files directory and the only way we can have the software recall thee settings is to be logged into the machine as an administrator.

Is there a way around this as we do not want to have to make a large number of staff admin users on certain machines.

I can already see that one solution is to have in place 'agreed' lists of policies and classroom groups etc set up by an admin user, but thought there may be a way in which the DAT file could be called from another shared network location, rather than the local machine.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Regards

Michael

[Andy]

Hello Michael

Yes, any changes to the setting, groups, policies etc are stored in the ABControl.dat file located in the same folder at the program. You have 2 options:

1: Allow a set group of known teachers to have Write access to this file.
2: Save the ABControl.dat file to a shared network drive accessible by teachers only. To get AB Tutor Control to use this file and not the local version, you need to specify a command line parameter to specify the path.

Syntax: -p or /p
E.g: C:\Program Files\ABControl\ABControl.exe -p n:\shared

Note, you just specify the path, not the path and file name.

I hope this helps

Andy