Re: error if texmf.fndb and mpm.fndb are not writable, even if no write is occuring

Am Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:20:45 -0700 schrieb Rick Pember:

>  > I think you should give more informations
>  > regarding the accounts and > the installation.
> 
> Here's what I did in detail:
> 
> 1) create restricted user account "user1" and log in to that account. 
> (restricted = non-administrator)
> 
> 2) download MiKTeX Portable 2.9.4757 to desktop
> -- we're using the portable package because we want to create a portable 
> folder containing MikTeXwhich we can then give to our customers and 
> which they can then use in a restricted account
> 
> 3) create a folder miktex and move installer into it
> 
> 4) open folder miktex and double click extractor.
> -- extract to C:\Documents and Settings\user1\Desktop\miktex
> --twoofthefilestheextractorinstallsare
....
> 
> 9) Now right click texmf.fndb and mpm.fndb again and click "Deny" on 
> Write access for user1.
> 
> Recall this is what our customer is requiring for an installation in 
> Program Files.

Imho this sort of installation doesn't make sense. You are trying to
move a portable installation - meant for users which can't write to
program files - to this very place. Naturally the portable miktex
assumes that it has full writing access to its data - what do you
expected? The main point of a portable application is that it
doesn't use user profiles but its main folder.

In my opinion your user1 has these options:

1. He installs a normal miktex in his restricted account in some
folder outside program files where he has writing rights. This will
give him a single user installation for this account. This works
without any problems - I have such installations on various PC
including one where I have very restricted rights.

This won't need writing rights for program files at all - neither
during installation nor when using miktex.

2. If he has writing rights during the installation:

- He could also try to make a single user installation in program
files. It *could* work and need writing rights only if new packages
need to be installed afterwards. But I never tried this.

- Or he installs a multiuser installation. User1 can that use this
miktex in his account without writing rights for program files. New
packages will be installed to his user profile.  


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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