I'm curious if this has been resolved for you with the update to SP1?
We are on 9.6 SP1 but are experiencing a similar issue.
Remote Console users cannot add Bare Metal devices, LANDesk Inventory Scanner reports an error "Unable to open output file \\coreserver\ldlogon\*****.SCN" and I do not see the SCN file created on the core server.
When attempting to run barescan.exe we get an error "unable to create ScanDirEmitter connection to core server:'core'"
If they are a member of the CoreServer\LANDesk Administrators group, everything works fine.
The weird part for me is that I have tried adding the Role of LANDesk Administrator and not having the user in the core's local group but that doesn't work.