Shared User Preferences Problem

FinalBuilder Discussion
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I use FB5 Professional Version at work on a shared workstation, which apparently causes problems with FinalBuilder's user specific settings.   It appears as though FinalBuilder must only use a single user settings file for all users, which is creating a conflict for us.

For example, when I define my user name and password for our source control product (StarTeam), the next person who logs into the workstation (using their own Windows login account) and uses FB also sees MY user name and password settings for the source control.   Obviously, if that user changes the settings to their user name and password, then these settings are wrong for me when I login.

Tools > Options > Version Control Systems > StarTeam > Identity (username / password)

Has this issue been resolved in FB6?   Is there a work-around in FB5?  

So far, FB5 does pretty much all we want it to do, but this settings issue is causing quite a problem.

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This sounds like a windows vista/7 virtualisation issue. You don’t say what version of windows you are using, so I’m only guessing here.

I just checked the code and also the settings file after changing the starteam settings and they are stored in the correct settings file. There are two settings file in FB, user and machine. Most things go in the machine file, only ui style preferences go in the use file.

On Vista/Windows 7/Server 2008 the file is here :

C:\ProgramData\VSoft\FinalBuilder5

My guess is that you are setting the machine options without having administrator privileges.

These articles might be useful :

http://thelazyadmin.com/blogs/thelazyadmin/archive/2007/04/26/file-system-virtualization.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927387

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Thank you for your response, Vincent.  

The workstation we have FinalBuilder installed on is running the Windows 2003 OS.   I'm assuming the Vista issue you mentioned doesn't apply for Win2k3?  (They don't appear to.)  I'm not sure if it matters, but we usually access the server via Remote Desktop instead of logging in directly to the console.

Each user that uses FinalBuilder is not an admin.   

The install path is "E:\Program Files\FinalBuilder 5", but I'm not sure which files in that path are user files.   Under my local folder path (C:\Documents and Settings\MyAccount\Application Data\FinalBuilder5), I see the following 3 files:

  • actionclasses.txt
     

  • FinalBuilder5.ini

  • propertydlg.ini

None of those files has the StarTeam login information in them (StarTeam being the application I'm having issues with).

 

 

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I have the same issue like Buildmeister T's initial posting. Has there been a resolution? Does FB6 address this?

Just to be clear: I did read Vince's posting, but it does not apply to our situation either.