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What are the needed Windows User Permissions to Customize WebLink?

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Updated March 19, 2014

asked on January 23, 2014

I have a user that has Remote User permission to the machine that WebLink is installed but is not an administrator. As a Remote User they continue to get an unhandled exception error whenever they attempt to make a change in WebLink designer. If I configure the user as an administrator they do not have any issue. Unfortunately I cannot leave this user as a machine administrator, do I have any other options?

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replied on January 23, 2014

You can grant administrative rights to that user only on relevant WebLink directories and remove the user as a global administrator on that machine. If you installed WebLink in the default directory, then the folder, and all subfolders, that the user needs all rights to is C:\Program Files\Laserfiche\WebLink 8\Web Files. You can grant administrative rights by right-clicking the folder in Windows Explorer, clicking on the Security tab, and editing permissions for users from there.

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replied on March 19, 2014 • Show version history

Hi Mike,

We have tried this and still are encountering an issue. Any other options?

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replied on January 23, 2014

We haven't really tested that application running as a non-administrator. You have probably disabled UAC on the machine, otherwise it would always prompt to run with elevated permission. I looked into it a bit, and it seems that the root failure is while communicating with IIS to get the folder path for the currently-selected virtual directory. I haven't been able to determine exactly what is required to allow this to succeed; if you want to research it the underlying technology is ADSI. But since I can't think of any UI to grant permissions to IIS I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to require local admin rights.

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replied on January 23, 2014

Thanks, I will do that now.

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