Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive cannot be run from a volume with read-only permission

[Gregory P. Moore]

Can anyone help with this.

I am new to mac (imac G5). I am on another user trying to get
entourage to run in the secondary user.

It runs fine on the main user. It says to reinstall Test Drive on a
volume with read and write permission.

THanks.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Can anyone help with this.

I am new to mac (imac G5). I am on another user trying to get
entourage to run in the secondary user.

It runs fine on the main user. It says to reinstall Test Drive on a
volume with read and write permission.

That looks like a Permission problem on the drive. Try using DiskUtility
to repair permissions on the drive through the First Aid pane to see if
it fixes the problem.

Corentin

 

[Anand]

Also check if the second user has permissions to run the Office 2004
applications.

You can do this by logging in as the first user go to:

System preferences--Accounts--select the second user and see if there are
any limits for the second user.

If yes check if he has access to applications and Microsoft office 2004.

Let me know if it works.

Anand P

 

[greg]

This problem also occurs when trying to use Office 2004 on a home
directory on a Mac OS X Server. Office installs and runs just fine
when logged in as a local user but as soon as one logs in as a network
user the message about it being a read only volume comes up.

Office X does not do this - it runs just fine so Microsoft have done
something to this version that is preventing it being used for
networked users.

If anyone has a solution I'd love to hear about it. All other
applications run just fine as well so its obviously a Microsoft issue