[bf1942] PB kicks for "Inadequate O/S Privileges"

Spuds McCat spuds at leopard.net
Fri Jun 4 18:25:44 EDT 2004


and how many internet cafes/game shops will accept and use  this
workaround?

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jorrit Schippers wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The faq page has a solution for this, but nonetheless I share your opinion
> ...
>
>
> Jorrit
>
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: AIX Gaming [mailto:webmaster at aixgaming.com]
> > Verzonden: donderdag 3 juni 2004 15:25
> > Aan: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > Onderwerp: Re: [bf1942] PB kicks for "Inadequate O/S Privileges"
> >
> > Ok, this is completely absurd.  So now any parent that
> > doesn't want their kids having full run of their machine is
> > out of luck.  This also means that anyone playing from work
> > from a corporate computer is also out of luck, as most user
> > machines at any reasonable sized company doesn't have admin
> > rights to their machines.
> >
> > "starting with this version 1.084, the PB Client now requires
> > the game to be run as the administrator user or equivalent
> > under Windows XP/2K"
> >
> > > I know why
> > > http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bfv.php
> > >
> > > check this out, quite a big update!
> > >
> > >
> > > --- AIX Gaming <webmaster at aixgaming.com> wrote:
> > >> We also had a massive number of PB kicks today.  It was
> > hard to keep
> > >> anyone on any of our several servers, including myself and
> > the other
> > >> admins.  It was tragic to see 40 some odd players suddenly
> > dropped to
> > >> 6 or
> > >> 7 within a 5 minute span.  Restarting the servers didn't
> > help like it
> > >> normally has in the past.  The one we were getting
> > >> was:
> > >>
> > >> VIOLATION (COMFAIL) #131: Playername (slot #10) PB Client Not
> > >> Responding
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > Just today I've started seeing loads of people
> > >> being kicked by PB with
> > >> > this message:
> > >> >
> > >> > "RESTRICTION: Inadequate O/S Privileges"
> > >> >
> > >> > It's literally never happened before today. So
> > >> far, 10 times today. A
> > >> > quick search of the evenbalance website didn't
> > >> reveal what this means.
> > >> > Is anyone else seeing this? (you can see by
> > >> grepping the files in
> > >> > pb/svlogs). Anyone know what it means?
> > >> >
> > >> > James
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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