Home Premium and Office 2003 SBE w/ BCM

Here is the basis of my problem. I know I am dealing with a known problem
but I am trying to find a workaround because it was suggested to me that my
problem should work fine on a local machine.

I had Windows XP Pro installed with Office 2003 SBE w/ Business Contact
Manager. Everything worked great.

I then installed Vista Home Premium (clean install) on the machine and tried
to reload Office 2003. Everthing worked fine until I tried to install the
BCM. This installed but I keep getting errors trying to retrieve my
contacts. Local Database Files not shared. I've poked around and discovered
that it seems to have created a LocalGroup called BCMUsers. Unfortunately
this group has no users in it. I am looking for a way to add users to this
group.

Because I have Home Premium, The Computer Console will not let me use the
Local Users and Groups snap-in. Why this is disabled in The Home Premium
version is beyond me. I just want to add to a LOCALGROUP. So when that
failed I tried to add a group using the NET.EXE commands. Unfortunately this
yields a "System Error 5" message.

Hooray - forVista Security - Boo for MS not having solved this
incompatability in the 4 years since Office 2003 SBE w/BCM shipped.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have already
contacted MS and their intial response after 45 minutes of tech chat was "to
contact the maker of the BCM software".

I am hoping to avoid having to "downgrade" back to XP Pro so that I can use
the BCM until a service pack fixes the problem.

Thanks for any help

Steve:
Networking isn't available in the Home versions of Vista. They're
available in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate only. I haven't heard
of a work around yet. Have a great day.

--
Dennis Pack
XP x64, Vista Enterprise x64
Office2007
"Steve" <me@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:iupyh.2174$Yl3.1850@trndny09...
> Here is the basis of my problem. I know I am dealing with a known problem
> but I am trying to find a workaround because it was suggested to me that
> my problem should work fine on a local machine.
>
> I had Windows XP Pro installed with Office 2003 SBE w/ Business Contact
> Manager. Everything worked great.
>
> I then installed Vista Home Premium (clean install) on the machine and
> tried to reload Office 2003. Everthing worked fine until I tried to
> install the BCM. This installed but I keep getting errors trying to
> retrieve my contacts. Local Database Files not shared. I've poked around
> and discovered that it seems to have created a LocalGroup called BCMUsers.
> Unfortunately this group has no users in it. I am looking for a way to add
> users to this group.
>
> Because I have Home Premium, The Computer Console will not let me use the
> Local Users and Groups snap-in. Why this is disabled in The Home Premium
> version is beyond me. I just want to add to a LOCALGROUP. So when that
> failed I tried to add a group using the NET.EXE commands. Unfortunately
> this yields a "System Error 5" message.
>
> Hooray - forVista Security - Boo for MS not having solved this
> incompatability in the 4 years since Office 2003 SBE w/BCM shipped.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have already
> contacted MS and their intial response after 45 minutes of tech chat was
> "to contact the maker of the BCM software".
>
> I am hoping to avoid having to "downgrade" back to XP Pro so that I can
> use the BCM until a service pack fixes the problem.
>
> Thanks for any help
>

Dennis:

The thing is - I'm not trying to Network, I'm trying to look at a local
Database created by BCM on my local machine. No networking needed. I just
need a way to add a User to a local group because that is apparently how MS
allows access to the BCM database files.


"Dennis Pack" <dennispack@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:82D1F10D-102F-4B6F-9BD4-CBEF87468244@microsoft.com...
> Steve:
> Networking isn't available in the Home versions of Vista. They're
> available in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate only. I haven't heard
> of a work around yet. Have a great day.
>
> --
> Dennis Pack
> XP x64, Vista Enterprise x64
> Office2007
> "Steve" <me@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news:iupyh.2174$Yl3.1850@trndny09...
>> Here is the basis of my problem. I know I am dealing with a known problem
>> but I am trying to find a workaround because it was suggested to me that
>> my problem should work fine on a local machine.
>>
>> I had Windows XP Pro installed with Office 2003 SBE w/ Business Contact
>> Manager. Everything worked great.
>>
>> I then installed Vista Home Premium (clean install) on the machine and
>> tried to reload Office 2003. Everthing worked fine until I tried to
>> install the BCM. This installed but I keep getting errors trying to
>> retrieve my contacts. Local Database Files not shared. I've poked around
>> and discovered that it seems to have created a LocalGroup called
>> BCMUsers. Unfortunately this group has no users in it. I am looking for a
>> way to add users to this group.
>>
>> Because I have Home Premium, The Computer Console will not let me use the
>> Local Users and Groups snap-in. Why this is disabled in The Home Premium
>> version is beyond me. I just want to add to a LOCALGROUP. So when that
>> failed I tried to add a group using the NET.EXE commands. Unfortunately
>> this yields a "System Error 5" message.
>>
>> Hooray - forVista Security - Boo for MS not having solved this
>> incompatability in the 4 years since Office 2003 SBE w/BCM shipped.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have already
>> contacted MS and their intial response after 45 minutes of tech chat was
>> "to contact the maker of the BCM software".
>>
>> I am hoping to avoid having to "downgrade" back to XP Pro so that I can
>> use the BCM until a service pack fixes the problem.
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>

Steve:
Sorry, I misunderstood the issue. Have a great day.

--
Dennis Pack
XP x64, Vista Enterprise x64
Office2007
"Steve" <me@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:c4Gyh.10959$_d4.10495@trndny05...
> Dennis:
>
> The thing is - I'm not trying to Network, I'm trying to look at a local
> Database created by BCM on my local machine. No networking needed. I just
> need a way to add a User to a local group because that is apparently how
> MS allows access to the BCM database files.
>
>
> "Dennis Pack" <dennispack@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:82D1F10D-102F-4B6F-9BD4-CBEF87468244@microsoft.com...
>> Steve:
>> Networking isn't available in the Home versions of Vista. They're
>> available in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate only. I haven't
>> heard of a work around yet. Have a great day.
>>
>> --
>> Dennis Pack
>> XP x64, Vista Enterprise x64
>> Office2007
>> "Steve" <me@somewhere.com> wrote in message
>> news:iupyh.2174$Yl3.1850@trndny09...
>>> Here is the basis of my problem. I know I am dealing with a known
>>> problem but I am trying to find a workaround because it was suggested to
>>> me that my problem should work fine on a local machine.
>>>
>>> I had Windows XP Pro installed with Office 2003 SBE w/ Business Contact
>>> Manager. Everything worked great.
>>>
>>> I then installed Vista Home Premium (clean install) on the machine and
>>> tried to reload Office 2003. Everthing worked fine until I tried to
>>> install the BCM. This installed but I keep getting errors trying to
>>> retrieve my contacts. Local Database Files not shared. I've poked around
>>> and discovered that it seems to have created a LocalGroup called
>>> BCMUsers. Unfortunately this group has no users in it. I am looking for
>>> a way to add users to this group.
>>>
>>> Because I have Home Premium, The Computer Console will not let me use
>>> the Local Users and Groups snap-in. Why this is disabled in The Home
>>> Premium version is beyond me. I just want to add to a LOCALGROUP. So
>>> when that failed I tried to add a group using the NET.EXE commands.
>>> Unfortunately this yields a "System Error 5" message.
>>>
>>> Hooray - forVista Security - Boo for MS not having solved this
>>> incompatability in the 4 years since Office 2003 SBE w/BCM shipped.
>>>
>>> Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have already
>>> contacted MS and their intial response after 45 minutes of tech chat was
>>> "to contact the maker of the BCM software".
>>>
>>> I am hoping to avoid having to "downgrade" back to XP Pro so that I can
>>> use the BCM until a service pack fixes the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>>>
>>
>
>