Hi,I have installed the latest MR, from scratch, and ActiveRadar has packed up. It was working with one of the releases this week, but the latest, or possibly even one or two back, release has broken it. It is the common problem of not picking up the weather, nearest station is 1000m away, no precipitation on the situation mode, and weather not available on the planning mode.I decided to clean up my installation, uninstalled all the releases, installed the initial release, and then the latest MR. I hacked the registry to set the path on the FS machine, as I had done previously because the install script does not work. Interestingly, the install script blew up slightly differently, but still complaining that I should check that the root drive of the AS2004 should be shared and mapped, which it is. Everything else appearss to be working. AS is giving FS the weather is should, so WideFS/WideClient are working.Steve

Hi Steve,1) Close down FS2) Make sure you share the root drive of the WideFS machine and give proper permissions (read and browse at a minimum)3) Map a drive to that share on your FS Machine4) Install AS2004 on the WideFS Machine local drive5) From the FS Machine, browse via the mapped drive to INSTALLDIRModulesActiveSky2004 (or wherever you installed it to) and run the ActiveRadarConnector2.exe program6) Make sure to pick the correct source as2004 program which should be (mapped drive):INSTALLDIRModulesActiveSky2004as2004.exePlease follow these steps carefully and if you have problems let me know exactly where the problem occured. It would be helpful to know exactly what drives, share names, permissions, etc. you have set.You can also do a manual copy ... you'll need the ActiveRadar.dll and ActiveRadar folder to your FS9Modules folder.Feel free to e-mail me directly for further resolution - [email protected].. Thanks!

Hi Damian,I have now got it working. I had followed your installation instructions, and repeated the steps set out above, but without any luck. I had to modify the registry, and thsi was the problem. I tried a few variations and eventually found one that worked.On a different note, could I make a few suggestions for future releases. When loading the flight plan, is it not possible to remeber the last used location? I always have to navigate to teh same location, and it is a bit of a bind having to do this every time. I would suggest, either remembering the last location used, and/or having an option to set this location.Another useful thing would be to have a button to suspend sending updates to FS. I have the option "start paused" set, but there are times when it would be useful to temporarily suspend updates, especially when setting up a flight over the network.Steve

>Hi Damian,>>I have now got it working. >>I had followed your installation instructions, and repeated>the steps set out above, but without any luck. I had to modify>the registry, and thsi was the problem. I tried a few>variations and eventually found one that worked.>>On a different note, could I make a few suggestions for future>releases. When loading the flight plan, is it not possible to>remeber the last used location? I always have to navigate to>teh same location, and it is a bit of a bind having to do this>every time. I would suggest, either remembering the last>location used, and/or having an option to set this location.>>Another useful thing would be to have a button to suspend>sending updates to FS. I have the option "start paused" set,>but there are times when it would be useful to temporarily>suspend updates, especially when setting up a flight over the>network.>>SteveI concur.I had these two suggestions in mind as well.Kyprianos Biris :-cool[link:avsim.com/greece/hvacc]Hellenic vACChttp://vateud.org/images/vatsim-eurs.gifhttp://vatsim.pilotmedia.fi/statusindicato...tor=OD1&a=a.jpg

Steve,Thanks for the great suggestions.. I will be working on it!-Damian

>Hi Damian,>>I have now got it working. >>I had followed your installation instructions, and repeated>the steps set out above, but without any luck. I had to modify>the registry, and thsi was the problem. I tried a few>variations and eventually found one that worked.>>>SteveHi Steve,have the same problem. What exactly did you change in the registry ?regardsPeter

Peter,I used the admin share instead of the share setup according to te instructions. The key is under local machineswhifias2004. Install_path is changed from something like U:Program Files.... to remote pc namec[or whatever remote drive AS is on]$Program Files....Steve

>Peter,>>I used the admin share instead of the share setup according to>te instructions. The key is under local>machineswhifias2004. Install_path is changed from something>like U:Program Files.... to remote pc namec[or whatever>remote drive AS is on]$Program Files....>>SteveHi Steve,thanks for your quick reply.Unfortunately this doesn't work with me. Must be another problem with my 2 PC's.I have installed everything according to the instructions, made a share to C:INSTALLDIR on the WideFS-system with highlevel rights, mapped this share on the FS9-system, was able to browse to the shared folder - but when I try to run ActiveRadarConnector2 I get that error message. No idea, what's going on. I had it running before i changed the harddrive on my FS9 machine and therefore had to reinstall everything.However, thanks a lot :-)Peter

Hi Peter,You need to map to the root drive (C:) not the Installdir folder. In the future we are trying to eliminate this requirement but for now you must map to ROOT. This should solve the problem. Let us know!-Damian

Hi Damien,also when I map to the ROOT I get the "Program Error... Exiting (Verify proper file locations and Mapped Drive to the ROOT of the WideFS/AS2004 Machine)" when browsing to the mapped folder and executing ActiveRadarConnector2. I can access everything on the WideFS/AS2004 Machine via the Windows explorer, but the RadarConnector seems to miss a connection.No clou, what's wrong.Sorry for not having better news.Peter

>Hi Damien,>>also when I map to the ROOT I get the "Program Error...>Exiting (Verify proper file locations and Mapped Drive to the>ROOT of the WideFS/AS2004 Machine)" when browsing to the>mapped folder and executing ActiveRadarConnector2. This is when installing is it? Have you carried on with the manual installation?>I can access everything on the WideFS/AS2004 Machine via the>Windows explorer, but the RadarConnector seems to miss a>connection.I would have a good guess that the problem is one of access rights. I followed the instructions, made the share, and gave it full rights, but no luck. I am suprised that the network share did not work, as it has solved other user's problems as well as mine. Try it again, and make certain that you have it set to the correct directory. I have got it wrong more than once. Mine is "WHISTLERC$Program FilesActiveSky2004ModulesActiveSky2004". Dont forget the end "", also note that I did not install to the default directory on the ActiveSky pc, but to "c:Program FilesActiveSky2004"Steve