Getting POMS up and running

Shipmates,

Wayne Monroe of FL78 recently did some system upgrades which caused an issue connecting to POMS. As those of you in Operations are aware POMS access is critical and we have a number of members who have issues connecting. Wayne did some research and came up with a solution to his particular problem. The need for true administrator privileges matches what I've seen on my Mac.

Here is the info about Citrix/POMS that we talked about. Hopefully this will help others who may be having trouble getting into POMS or getting an error message. Wayne

Unable to access POMS or getting a Citrix (POMS) error message. This info might help.

(The secret I learned is to be logged onto your computer as the "REAL" Administrator for "full admin rights").

I have been getting an error message about an incorrect bool value every time I turned on my computer that is generated by the Citrix software. I decided to clear it up so removed everything Citrix from my computer that I could tell was related to POMS. I researched and found these instructions and files at D1NR. 

http://www.d1nr-bcqp.us/POMSWindows.htm

Someplace in the instructions it said to make sure you are installing from an "Administrator" account. My account said Admin but I couldn't get it to work so I did more research and discovered the Vista/Win7 "Hidden Administration Account" and instruction on how to enable it at this site. I used the "sepcol" process but method 2 looks good also.

http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f127/admin-rights-vista-windows-7-a-197772/

Citrix loaded easy but the POMS token still would not work because it would just open as a text file. After a little experimenting I browsed to and opened the token with"wfcrun32" which is a file in the Citrix program. That did the trick and it all works fine without the error message.

Thanks Wayne!