Permissions on Windows NT

[Charles Staelin]

Hi,

 

I've been away from Swarm and the list for the past six months or so - administrative duties called.  Now I'm back with a new Windows NT 4.0 machine and trying to get Swarm 2.1.1 up and running.  I installed everything from the Administrator, as directed, and then tried running from a user account.  Paths and environment variables seem to be ok - the Swarm Terminal comes up fine.  The problem is that I can't run any command files from the user account.  If I try to (for instance) run javacswarm while in the /Swarm-2.1.1/bin directory, I get a file not found message from the shell.  If I do the same thing on the Administrator account, the command file runs.

 

From the Administrator account I've given the user account "full access" permissions (the files are of course owned by the Administrators).  However, using "dir" in the terminal shows -rwxr-xr-x permissions for the javacswarm file and nothing I do with chmod will allow me to add write permission for others, or to change permissions at all for that matter.

 

BTW, .exe files run just fine.

 

I haven't seen reference to this problem in the FAQ or in the archives.  Clearly I'm doing/have done something wrong.  Any suggestions?

 

Many thanks,

Charles

 

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Charles Staelin
Dean for Academic Development
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
email: address@hidden
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