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"Directory Modify Rights Needed To Change Pri |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: 1. When a user tries to select a printer from the Additional Printers list (Shift-F7|Select|Add Printer) or make a change to the .PRS file (such as adding or editing a form), the error "Directory Modify Rights Needed To Change Printer File" occurs. 2. Other customers using WP on Alloy and NetWare Lite networks receive the "Directory Modify Rights Needed To Change Printer File" error when editing or creating .PRS files. 3. Another customer running WP on a Novell 3.11 network received the "Directory Modify Rights Needed To Change Printer File" message when trying to create or edit a .PRS file. The customer was using the MAP ROOT command and had X: map rooted to SYS:APPS\WP51. If the user specified X: as the path for the Printer Files in Location of Files, the error would occur when the user tried to create or modify a .PRS file. If the user put the entire path by substituting another drive letter which is not map rooted, the error did not occur. The user had full rights in the directory specified, including Modify. The files were flagged as Normal (Shareable, Read Write). Solutions: 1. The user was on a stand-alone machine, but had a WordPerfect environment file, WP{WP}.ENV, in the WP51 directory. The ENV file had /NT=1 (Novell). Deleting the ENV file eliminated the error. 2. The users had Novell NetWare (/NT=1) selected as their network type. Alloy should be /NT=0 (other) and NetWare Lite /NT=4 (IBM emulation). 3. In this case, WP was requesting the directory rights for the path "\" relative to the pathbase which is pointing to a fake root. Novell should be returning the rights of the directory pointed to by the pathbase because it is a fake root. However, it is modifying the pathbase with "\" and returning the directory rights of the true root. Most system administrators restrict rights on the true root to Read and File Scan (at the most), so the error occurs because there are no Modify rights granted to users in the true root. This is a problem with Novell NetWare. WPCorp is currently trying to find a workaround for this problem. |
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