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Rumba Office 7.3 - Transfer Option not displayed

  • August 15, 2017
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Hello

We have a large deployment of Rumba Office 7.3 installed in a Windows 8.1 AD domain. A small section of the deployments need to user the Rumba Mainframe Display Transfer option. However the option is missing, and cannot be added back in via the Option Menu (its disabled with a red X).

While I appreciate that this version of Rumba Office is rather long in the tooth, we actually have the transfer option working on a single Windows 8.1 machine - but I cannot figure out as to why. All registry options are the same, and any minor difference are corrected to reflect the working system. The MSI has been installed on Windows 8.1, 7 and XP machines, and the transfer option only works on the XP machine. his lead me down the UAC route (being the notable difference between XP and 7/8) and shutting this down makes no difference. Its worth noting that both the working and test system are present in the same Active Directory Container, receiving the same policies.

I have copied the ProgramData and other installation respoitories from the working system to test system with no positive results.

 

Would appreciate some assistance with this :-)


#Rumba

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André Escudero

Hello

We have a large deployment of Rumba Office 7.3 installed in a Windows 8.1 AD domain. A small section of the deployments need to user the Rumba Mainframe Display Transfer option. However the option is missing, and cannot be added back in via the Option Menu (its disabled with a red X).

While I appreciate that this version of Rumba Office is rather long in the tooth, we actually have the transfer option working on a single Windows 8.1 machine - but I cannot figure out as to why. All registry options are the same, and any minor difference are corrected to reflect the working system. The MSI has been installed on Windows 8.1, 7 and XP machines, and the transfer option only works on the XP machine. his lead me down the UAC route (being the notable difference between XP and 7/8) and shutting this down makes no difference. Its worth noting that both the working and test system are present in the same Active Directory Container, receiving the same policies.

I have copied the ProgramData and other installation respoitories from the working system to test system with no positive results.

 

Would appreciate some assistance with this :-)


#Rumba

Hi ,

iRumba 7.3 from 2004 was built for XP and Windows 2000 environment it's not supported on your target platform.

The Problem is that starting with Vista, Microsoft modified the way users interact with their applications, namely, the User Account Control (UAC). This required
RUMBA to significantly change the way it communicates with the operating system. Major architectural changes were made to be compliant with these new Vista access-rights changes.

Additionally, RUMBA communication interface subsystems utilize Windows APIs that are subject to tighter security modifications, released by Microsoft on a fairly regular basis. These Microsoft security modifications are necessary to counteract hacker attacks.

What this means is that even if an older RUMBA product works today, there is a very real risk that it may stop working, or work differently, when a new Windows patch is applied.

That said , did you try to run RUMBA in compatibility mode ?

 

D

Hello

We have a large deployment of Rumba Office 7.3 installed in a Windows 8.1 AD domain. A small section of the deployments need to user the Rumba Mainframe Display Transfer option. However the option is missing, and cannot be added back in via the Option Menu (its disabled with a red X).

While I appreciate that this version of Rumba Office is rather long in the tooth, we actually have the transfer option working on a single Windows 8.1 machine - but I cannot figure out as to why. All registry options are the same, and any minor difference are corrected to reflect the working system. The MSI has been installed on Windows 8.1, 7 and XP machines, and the transfer option only works on the XP machine. his lead me down the UAC route (being the notable difference between XP and 7/8) and shutting this down makes no difference. Its worth noting that both the working and test system are present in the same Active Directory Container, receiving the same policies.

I have copied the ProgramData and other installation respoitories from the working system to test system with no positive results.

 

Would appreciate some assistance with this :-)


#Rumba
Thank you for your reply.

Yes I have tried compatibility mode (Windows XP SP3), and disabled UAC with no positive results.

If this did not work on all systems, I would cut my losses and suggest upgrading to a latter version. However it works on a Windows 8.1 domain joined system, so there is obviously a solution to be found!! :-)
D

Hello

We have a large deployment of Rumba Office 7.3 installed in a Windows 8.1 AD domain. A small section of the deployments need to user the Rumba Mainframe Display Transfer option. However the option is missing, and cannot be added back in via the Option Menu (its disabled with a red X).

While I appreciate that this version of Rumba Office is rather long in the tooth, we actually have the transfer option working on a single Windows 8.1 machine - but I cannot figure out as to why. All registry options are the same, and any minor difference are corrected to reflect the working system. The MSI has been installed on Windows 8.1, 7 and XP machines, and the transfer option only works on the XP machine. his lead me down the UAC route (being the notable difference between XP and 7/8) and shutting this down makes no difference. Its worth noting that both the working and test system are present in the same Active Directory Container, receiving the same policies.

I have copied the ProgramData and other installation respoitories from the working system to test system with no positive results.

 

Would appreciate some assistance with this :-)


#Rumba
Thank you for your reply.

Yes I have tried compatibility mode (Windows XP SP3), and disabled UAC with no positive results.

If this did not work on all systems, I would cut my losses and suggest upgrading to a latter version. However it works on a Windows 8.1 domain joined system, so there is obviously a solution to be found!! :-)
André Escudero

Hello

We have a large deployment of Rumba Office 7.3 installed in a Windows 8.1 AD domain. A small section of the deployments need to user the Rumba Mainframe Display Transfer option. However the option is missing, and cannot be added back in via the Option Menu (its disabled with a red X).

While I appreciate that this version of Rumba Office is rather long in the tooth, we actually have the transfer option working on a single Windows 8.1 machine - but I cannot figure out as to why. All registry options are the same, and any minor difference are corrected to reflect the working system. The MSI has been installed on Windows 8.1, 7 and XP machines, and the transfer option only works on the XP machine. his lead me down the UAC route (being the notable difference between XP and 7/8) and shutting this down makes no difference. Its worth noting that both the working and test system are present in the same Active Directory Container, receiving the same policies.

I have copied the ProgramData and other installation respoitories from the working system to test system with no positive results.

 

Would appreciate some assistance with this :-)


#Rumba

May some components are not correctly registered.
try: regsvr32 WdFtxCtl.Ocx
The FileTransfer control (WdFtxCtl.Ocx ) should reside in the Rumba\\System folder .

You should have a Plan B , and consider an update to newer version that is supported under Windows 8 and newer.

D

Hello

We have a large deployment of Rumba Office 7.3 installed in a Windows 8.1 AD domain. A small section of the deployments need to user the Rumba Mainframe Display Transfer option. However the option is missing, and cannot be added back in via the Option Menu (its disabled with a red X).

While I appreciate that this version of Rumba Office is rather long in the tooth, we actually have the transfer option working on a single Windows 8.1 machine - but I cannot figure out as to why. All registry options are the same, and any minor difference are corrected to reflect the working system. The MSI has been installed on Windows 8.1, 7 and XP machines, and the transfer option only works on the XP machine. his lead me down the UAC route (being the notable difference between XP and 7/8) and shutting this down makes no difference. Its worth noting that both the working and test system are present in the same Active Directory Container, receiving the same policies.

I have copied the ProgramData and other installation respoitories from the working system to test system with no positive results.

 

Would appreciate some assistance with this :-)


#Rumba
Andrew

Fantastic, I can now enabled and disable the transfer menu. However non of the sub options work: SEND / RECEIVE CONFIGURE etc. Is there another file to be registered?

Much appreciated!

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