I have a Windows terminal server 2003 thin client setup at my school. Before Christmas I used your scratch website with my 7th graders. Now that we are back, I wanted to use it with my Juniors and find that when they go on the website, they can't view any projects. (I am using the newest Mozilla Firefox as a browser) The interesting thing is when I logged into the terminal server via RDP as administrator it worked, but when I logged in as regular user and then as a different admin, it did not work. Any ideas what is going on?
In further investigation, I have found that I could use the JAVA on the scratch website when I logged in as domain administrator or local administrator (but no one else even other domain admins, so its not a permission issue), but when I logged off of those two accounts and came back in later to try it, they don't work now. I don't think it is a profile based issue because I created a brand new user in Active Directory and tried it and it didn't work for them at all.
I am wondering if it is an issue with Java not being able to manage the multi-user environment, but I am just guessing at this point.
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by swtte (2008-01-04 17:12:04)
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Sounds like they may be disabling Java when for non-administrators. I would suggest that you check to see if other Java applets run in the browser (see http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.4/demos/plugin/applets.html for some applets to try) when logged in as a student. If those applets don't run, then Java is not enabled. You should talk to the IT person at the school.
Another possible problem--if Firefox was recently installed then it may not have the Java plugin installed. In that case, you could try a different browser or reinstall the Java runtime (JRE) from http://www.java.com/en/
(this advice is from John, posted by Natalie)
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Does anyone have Java advice?
swtte wrote today:
None of the 5 users I tested (both admins and regular users) could view that
small project.
I have attached the text found in the Java Console for you to look at. It
appear to being having a read problem with the Verdana Font, but when I
checked the security on the Fonts folder I found that admins have full
control and regular users have read permissions. Is there something about
Java security that I am missing?
We do have Norton Corporate, but I don't know where to look to see if it is
the culprit or how to change that.
Please let me know if this helps you come up with a solution!
[Here is a line from the file]:
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdana.TTF read)
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