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Hello all,

Im going to get right to the point.

We are running Terminal Services on a win2k server with
sp4 and have a oracle forms database that uses the runtime
viewer to display the data, however what we have to do
when we open the database for the first time on our client
machines is to associate .fmx files with the oracle
runtime viewer, no big deal this has always worked fine on
the individual client machines. However we now want to
configure this for users of terminal services as well.
The program will install fine, and even run in every
profile, but the problem is, the option to select 'always
use the program to open these files' is greyed out with no
way to select it, also I can not create a new file
extension and associate it that way, as it is all greyed
out. This is on the terminal server console im trying to
do this ie. sitting at the machine. I have tried logged
onto the domain with an administrator account, as well as
logged in locally to the machine. Neither allow the
option. Like i said the program works fine, but everytime
you click on the file, it prompts you what program to use
to for that file type, and i cannot select 'always use
this program for these file types' because for whatever
reason its greyed out, and so is the options under tools |
folder options | file types.

Btw, i did install this program in both installation mode,
and regular ts mode. Makes no difference.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks for your help, really need to get this going.
 
Look for the following key in the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi
on\Policies\Explorer
change the setting for "NoFileAssociate" from
dword:00000000 to dword:00000001. This will allow you to
make changes to file associations.
 
Sorry, got that backwords. The value should be set to 0.
See MS KB article Q257592.
-----Original Message-----
Look for the following key in the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi
on\Policies\Explorer
change the setting for "NoFileAssociate" from
dword:00000000 to dword:00000001. This will allow you to
make changes to file associations.
-----Original Message-----
Hello all,

Im going to get right to the point.

We are running Terminal Services on a win2k server with
sp4 and have a oracle forms database that uses the runtime
viewer to display the data, however what we have to do
when we open the database for the first time on our client
machines is to associate .fmx files with the oracle
runtime viewer, no big deal this has always worked fine on
the individual client machines. However we now want to
configure this for users of terminal services as well.
The program will install fine, and even run in every
profile, but the problem is, the option to select 'always
use the program to open these files' is greyed out with no
way to select it, also I can not create a new file
extension and associate it that way, as it is all greyed
out. This is on the terminal server console im trying to
do this ie. sitting at the machine. I have tried logged
onto the domain with an administrator account, as well as
logged in locally to the machine. Neither allow the
option. Like i said the program works fine, but everytime
you click on the file, it prompts you what program to use
to for that file type, and i cannot select 'always use
this program for these file types' because for whatever
reason its greyed out, and so is the options under tools |
folder options | file types.

Btw, i did install this program in both installation mode,
and regular ts mode. Makes no difference.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks for your help, really need to get this going.
.
.
 
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