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- January 7, 1997
- Updated: June 27, 1997
- Contributor: John H Terpstra <samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au>
- Copyright (C) 1997 - John H Terpstra
- Status: Current
-
- Subject: Using a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.
- ==============================================================================
-
- Problem:
- ========
- Microsoft Office products can be installed as an administrative installation
- from which the application can either be run off the administratively installed
- product that resides on a shared resource, or from which that product can be
- installed onto workstation clients.
-
- The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves
- running:
- X:\setup /A, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy
-
- This installation process will NOT install the product for use per se, but
- rather results in unpacking of the compressed distribution files into a target
- shared folder. For this process you need write privilidge to the share and it
- is desirable to enable file locking and share mode operation during this
- process.
-
- Subsequent installation of MS Office from this share will FAIL unless certain
- precautions are taken. This failure will be caused by share mode operation
- which will prevent the MS Office installation process from re-opening various
- dynamic link library files and will cause sporadic file not found problems.
-
- Solution:
- =========
- 1. As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed
- set the following parameters on the share containing it:
- [MSOP95]
- path = /where_you_put_it
- comment = Your comment
- volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label"
- read only = yes
- available = yes
- share modes = no
- locking = no
- browseable = yes
- public = yes
-
- 2. Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows
- workstation as follows:-
- \\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup
-
-