I’m trying to get the webplayer to work in a limited permission environment but it attempts to run an update in C:\documents and settings(current user)\local settings\temp\unitywebplayer
This is a school environment and many different users connect to different machines on the campus so giving modify permissions to docs&settings or every single user is not a viable option. Is there a way to install it for all users or allow the web player to pull from the all users folder or someplace else?
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prior to 2.6 the webplayer was installed for the whole machine but required admin rights to install at all
sicne 2.6 the webplayer installs for each distinct user to get rid of the admin right need and work in such limited environments at all.
you should not need to give any kind of a right to them to write there as this is the users temp folder which is writeable for user by default its after all the users temp folder. (its writting the log in there by the way, which can either be written or will terminate unity)
The problem we have is the students won’t have permissions to execute and install the webplayer update in the first place even if everything gets written to their folders.
Even if we update the webplayer from admin on the machine when we log in as a student, it asks for the update and fails again.
so you basically removed even basic computer user rights that you would have with full UAC on a normal user acc?
Well in that case there won’t be a webplayer for them then, cause if it can’t install itself into the appdata/LocalLow/Unity folder it will not work
There is no global deploy or anything, the install is per user to exactly avoid admin right requirements and global messups cause the previous system was not acceptable to your type of environment, installing the webplayer on hundreds of machines manually due to the admin right requirement.
But some UT technician / support staff member might know a trick around thats not as commonly known.
These machines are Windows XP and not 7 so theres no UAC. It’s the same either way, thanks for your info if anyone else knows a work-around or a way we can install the web player to C:\ or something else please let me know.
The UAC part isn’t of importance (was meant as an argument for the counter side cause it normally prevents stuff, not allowing it 
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On XP Pro you should be able to grant them the right to install it there.
You can’t do global installations to C or alike.
The programs folder install requiring admin access was 2.5 and prior and is gone.
The only place where it potentially could work out of my view, if at all, is if it could be installed to the all users user files, though as you can not login as that one I’m unsure if thats even possible.
But you could experiment with installing it and then moving the whole folder and alike or just dropping the unity support a mail (after checking http://answers.unity3d.com )
i give permission
ho to work this…it say unity player needs your permission to run