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Yup, everything but "special permission" is check as "allow"

And special permission what is that set up for as, and for what? :)
And that's just file permissions (I am guessing) and certainly not GPO
 
The truth I would suggest is that there are too many factors here, get a sysadmin and install the software with him or her logged on it (domain admin or local machine admin), if they are off site maybe they can use remote desktop. Then you can rule out any issue to do with permissions (and my bet that's the issue, but I don't really know until you try it).
 
Cheers..

It's an HDD drive.

Alex may have the best solution... you need a good friend in the IT department to help you load your "education-based software" to expand your creative mind.

Yup.  Sounds like I'll have to wait until someone in IT can help.  Thanks for all the suggestions!

The consensus seems to be that there is something going on with your access to the system or system itself. This is why I posted that somewhat rambling story earlier and suggested you call support and troubleshoot it over the phone with them. System admins can be tricky weirdos and who knows how they got that system built or configured (except them). Cake support will be far better able to troubleshoot this in real time to give you a definitive answer on whether it's gonna install or not. Frankly trying to install something on a system you aren't completely familiar with and have full control over is... well kind of not ideal. You've got some of our better tech guys here giving you advice so if it's not working out at this point something specific is going on and it will likely only turn into an exercise in frustration for you until you can a) talk to your uni admins or b) go through this with support so they can pin down what is interrupting the install process.
 
Seriously... it really should not be this difficult. I'm an idiot and I managed to get all three versions I've owned installed on my home built system (remember I'm an idiot) without any issues. I even got the X1 demo installed on my crappy bloatware infested laptop before I bought Sonar. It didn't work properly because it's a crappy laptop but it installed fine.
 
Sisyphus sayeth "Dude... this rock be heavy, yo".

D'oh. I seem to have type up all that blathering for nothing. lol
 
Try it on your home system though. At least you can poke around the program while you wait. Cheers.

Cake will find it extremely difficult if not impossible to diagnose what areas of the registry do have permission and what areas don't I would suggest if the user permissions are restricted, if a user is restricted then they are restricted. GPO is a complex affair. It would be a guessing game unless the user wants to install the GPO tools and go through all the options to see what works and see what doesn't (could take all day)...
 
Unless I'm barking up the wrong tree... Cake may find it is something entirely different.
 
But Ross has already stated he has had "special permissions" revoked on his hard drive (and even then I'm not sure which areas), and special permissions is just a subset of any file permission + a load of other file permissions thrown on top, and the registry (GPO) this is anybody's guess especially if Ross will be locked out (otherwise administrators would not have restricted him). Smells like a smoking gun to me.
 
End of the day, no sudo, then it is no sudo....  (not to be confused with Run As Administrator which is something similar but very different)

Yeah, see that's all beyond me. I just figure the Cake techs can go "Do this, this, this and this" and if it doesn't work then Sonar just won't install. Then dudes that control the computer would have to come into the fray which ideally they would be already but they are not around for a couple weeks.
 
IDK... I just wouldn't even really expect a program like Sonar to work on just any system even if the specs were there. It's not Adobe Reader or Angry Birds or something. I mean no harm in trying I just know how frustrating and time consuming it can be attempting to make my shiny light boxes do stuff they can't for whatever reason... and those are MY shiny light boxes. Frankly I'm surprised I've had the luck I have with all this fancy audio stuff. I generally have a black thumb for this kind of crap. Sheer will I guess.

Unless you've been an administrator on a Windows Server box and played with GPO... yup it will be gobbledegook, and most people in helpdesks have never done so either. The clearest explanation of GPO though is setting special permissions on areas of the registry for specific users or machines.... It took me weeks to get a grip on it!


A long long time ago whilst experimenting I managed to lock out about 250 users from their machines for about 30 minutes (because I set the wrong GPO permission and I didn't realise the environment was live)... but that's another story

CakeAlexS


A long long time ago whilst experimenting I managed to lock out about 250 users from their machines for about 30 minutes (because I set the wrong GPO permission and I didn't realise the environment was live)... but that's another story

Whoops! lol