[THIN] Helper App "Problem"

  • From: "Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation" <bcoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:28:43 -0400

Ok, I'm having this issue in two different areas.  I say "problem" because I
know how to fix it, but I don't know why its happening.

The first is IBM Content Manager OnDemand.  It uses Adobe Acrobat Approval
via a plug in as a helper application.  When I installed it, the user was
unable to launch a PDF file from OnDemand (error read "Adobe Acrobat
(AcroExch.App rc=-2147024891) could not be loaded.  From what I could find
on the web, that error number indicates a permissions error of some type,
ie. "Access is denied."

If an admin opens a PDF this way, it works - and _then_ it works for
everyone, and continues to work after a reboot.

We also have a home grown document management system that uses Autovue as a
viewer.  In this case, I have to launch Autovue before a user does,
otherwise the users can't launch documents.  Once I do, the users are
forever able to launch Autovue from our document management software!

Environment is NT4 TSE.  I checked file/registry permissions, and dcomcnfg
looking for security related problems, but found nothing.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

Thanks -

Bob Coffman


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