Web player needs to load once after installation with Admin user?

Unity Engine
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I’ve gotten reports of trouble using a Unity website at a school. The school tech guy installed the plug-in on all the computers, but when the students went to the site, they got a “plug-in failed to update” error. The tech guy investigated and found that he needed to log into each computer as Admin and load the website once, and thereafter it worked fine. His guess was that the plug-in needs to write some global system preference that it has checked for updates–but it could not do that when running with student (non-Admin) users. Or something like that.

So, he was able to get it working, but it is certainly tedious to have to load the website on each and every computer in the school computer lab. Does anyone know if this is accurate, or if there is a way to avoid doing that?

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Something is not right as auto updates should work for standard users. Maybe user accounts have very limited privileges? What are the error details? Log file would be helpful too.

As a workaround full installer could be downloaded in which case no updates will happen (until new release that is):

http://webplayer.unity3d.com/download_webplayer-3.x/UnityWebPlayerFull.exe

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Yep, bug was reported for this happening on Macs.

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Ah, ok, glad it’s already been reported. Thanks for letting me know

Dave