Permissions

[NebDave]

I have a three user id's on my Cube running Office for Mac X (10.1.4).
When any user other than mine (mine being the administrator) tries to
open up any of the Office components, a message appears saying:

You do not have permission to open the application "Microsoft Word".
Contact the person who administers your computer or your network
administrator for assistance.

I have checked the permissions for these applications logged in to all
three of the user id's and they all have permission to "read & write"
under group; the owner is shown as me. I must be missing something
here, but I have tried a number of combinations, and cannot seem to
get the other user id's access. The main reason I set the user id's
up was to create separate access for the individuals wanting to use
the Office Suite.

I have separate licenses on two other computers and have no problems
at all. Is there some way to reset, or reinstall to straighten this
out, or better yet, a fix for the permissions?

NebDave

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi,

I have a three user id's on my Cube running Office for Mac X (10.1.4).
When any user other than mine (mine being the administrator) tries to
open up any of the Office components, a message appears saying:

You do not have permission to open the application "Microsoft Word".
Contact the person who administers your computer or your network
administrator for assistance.

Yeah, it's a classic. I've seen that many times unfortunately. It
usually happens when the installation has been performed by drag and
drop from another machine (but other things can get you there as well).

I have checked the permissions for these applications logged in to all
three of the user id's and they all have permission to "read & write"
under group; the owner is shown as me.

Yep, but tha'ts not enough. You have to make sure all files in the
Microsoft Office fodler are also read and write. You can select the
folder and press command-i in MacOS X 10.3 and apply these permissions
recursively to all enclosed files and folders. Under previous versions
of the system I'd suggest that you'd do that through an application like
BatChmod.

You should also use DiskUtility (10.2 and 10.3) to repair permissions on
the drive (select the drive in DU, click on the first aid pane and from
there click on "repair permissions").


Corentin