[WEB4LIB] NT4, IE4.2, and FLASH -- Problems

[Andrew I. Mutch]

You can get a fix for the IE 5.0 Run "bug" at Bob Sullivan's site:

http://www.scpl.org/publicnt/

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI


On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 bbatchel at memlane.com wrote:

> <color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Hi
> 
> 
> On our public internet workstations, we are having a problem getting 
> FLASH to run with the PUBLIC login.  We are using the Policy Table to 
> limit PUBLIC's access.  FLASH works great on the ADMIN login.
> 
> 
> Public gets this error when access a web page with FLASH content
> 
> 
> <color><param>FF00,0000,0000</param>error occurred copying swflash.ocx
> 
> from c:\temp\ICD2.tmp\swflash.ocx
> 
> to c:\winnt\system32\macromed\flash\swflash.ocx
> 
> 
> error #5 
> 
> 
> <color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>We treated it as a file access problem and have given PUBLIC full 
> access to all the drive and directories mentioned but the error will 
> not go away.
> 
> 
> We cannot understand why FLASH wants to copy the file as it already 
> exists in the destination directory!
> 
> 
> Macromedia cannot tell us what the problem is.
> 
> MS has lots of error 5 messages on their troubleshooting site but no 
> connection with the FLASH software.
> 
> 
> We have IE4 with service pack 2.  We are unable to use IE5 as it 
> opens up the RUN command to our users or alternatively blocks access 
> to address input in the address bar.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas??
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> <nofill>
> Bob Batchelder, Technical Services Coordinator
> Shortgrass Library System
> 2375 10th Ave SW
> Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 8G2, Canada
> 
> phone 403 / 529-0550;  fax:  403 / 528-2473
> e-mail:  bbatchel at memlane.com
> http://www.shortgrass-lib.ab.ca
>