Domain user cannot access Autocad 2007 LT unless set as loacal administrator

[acha2013]

One of our domain users cannot access Autocad 2007LT as a domasin user in Windows 7. As soon as we make him temporary admin it allows him to use it. A pop up box appears asking far administration credentials before he can use autocad. We have tried giving read and write access to the autocad files that we think it links to but this has not helped. Does anybody have any ideas regarding this?

Many thanks

Chris

[Bernd.Gerstenberger]

Hi Chris,

AutoCAD LT 2007 was created for Windows XP. Microsoft has changed the local permission structure especially for the program folder in Vista respectively W7. Normal users have only reading access to the program folder in W7 and Vista. Because of that newer versions of AutoCAD LT have saved now the Autodesk User Profile in subfolders of the %USERPROFILE%. For this Autodesk User Profile the user needs the permission of modifying to run AutoCAD LT. This is  also one reason why AutoCAD LT 2007 is not supported for W7 and Vista.

Regards

Bernd

[acha2013]

Hi, Thank you for getting back to me regarding this issue. Are you saying then that it is possible for the user to have read write permissions to the profile which will enable the programme to work? The user was previously able to access the software as a domain user on windows 7, its only up and till recently we had to format the hard drive and reinstall everything that we are finding we have a problem with it. Many thanks Chris

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[Bernd.Gerstenberger]

Hi Chris,

My mean answer is that this is an unsupported environment. But, yes, you can modify the search paths and other paths in the options of AutoCAD LT, tab 'Files' to %appdata%\...

Regards

Bernd