Home Premium and Office 2003 SBE w/ BCM

[Steve]

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 Pack]

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.

 

[Steve]

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]

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