Timeshift needs Admistrator rights ?

[iwan]

Hi,

I just went through a clean install of 96.8. Completely hassle-free in 15 minutes or so - this is a great piece of software.
One thing keeps puzzling me, though. When logged in as Administrator, switching to timeshift works flawlessly. When logged in as normal user, trying to switch to timeshift gives me a black screen.
Am I overlooking something or does timeshift need GBPVR to be run with administrative rights ?

so long,

iwan.

[sub]

does timeshift need GBPVR to be run with administrative rights?

Possibly. I dont test it with reduced rights.

Reproduce the problem then zip and attach you logs and I'll let you know I can see anything obvious wrong at your end.

[Koenie]

I tried to set the rights of the GBPVR user on my server to plain user rights and got several problems with the previous version of GBPVR, so I gave up and gave the GBPVR user its admin rights back.

I also tried to give only GBPVR itself admin rights (runas) and that works but I can not get this automated smootly. ie start GBPVR with the powerbutton on the remote and bring it to the foreground. Probably this can be done with some clever batch files but I am not good enough at it to do so.

[iwan]

Possibly. I dont test it with reduced rights.

Reproduce the problem then zip and attach you logs and I'll let you know I can see anything obvious wrong at your end.

Thanks for the immediate response - here you are:

so long,

iwan.

[iwan]

I tried to set the rights of the GBPVR user on my server to plain user rights and got several problems with the previous version of GBPVR, so I gave up and gave the GBPVR user its admin rights back.

I also tried to give only GBPVR itself admin rights (runas) and that works but I can not get this automated smootly. ie start GBPVR with the powerbutton on the remote and bring it to the foreground. Probably this can be done with some clever batch files but I am not good enough at it to do so.

I used to run the previous version of GBPVR under non-admin rights. This worked very well, except for timeshift. I think I tried this as admin as well, so at that point there was no correlation between timeshit and admin rights.

When it comes to running programs with admin rights automagically have a look at runasspc. Works like a charm for me (using it to get my VFD running).

so long,

iwan.

[sub]

Try running the 're-register filters' bat file from the GB-PVR start menu icon to see if it helps.

[David]

May be a silly question, but have you checked the permissions for your liveTV directory?

[iwan]

Try running the 're-register filters' bat file from the GB-PVR start menu icon to see if it helps.

Great - this solved my problem !
Thanks a lot, Sub !

so long,

iwan.

[iwan]

May be a silly question, but have you checked the permissions for your liveTV directory?

Yes, permissions are set to 'Full access' via 'cacls ... /g user:f'

so long,

iwan.

[tsandstr]

Useful hint for me maybe. I have been struggeling with about the same problems as it seems. Not quite sure though!

Iwan: Did you get a message: "Error: Failure playing back file" ... during livetv in timeshifting mode?

As what user should the GBPVRRecordingService.exe run as? Currently mine is running as System user and I have never been able to timeshift nor record yet.