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author | Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org> | 2003-04-30 22:52:23 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/faq/faq-clientapp.html b/docs/faq/faq-clientapp.html deleted file mode 100644 index 4aa8a50c4b..0000000000 --- a/docs/faq/faq-clientapp.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,281 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> -<HTML -><HEAD -><TITLE ->Specific client application problems</TITLE -><META -NAME="GENERATOR" -CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK -REL="HOME" -TITLE="Samba FAQ" -HREF="samba-faq.html"><LINK -REL="PREVIOUS" -TITLE="Configuration problems" -HREF="faq-config.html"><LINK -REL="NEXT" -TITLE="Common errors" -HREF="faq-errors.html"></HEAD -><BODY -CLASS="CHAPTER" -BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" -TEXT="#000000" -LINK="#0000FF" -VLINK="#840084" -ALINK="#0000FF" -><DIV -CLASS="NAVHEADER" -><TABLE -SUMMARY="Header navigation table" -WIDTH="100%" -BORDER="0" -CELLPADDING="0" -CELLSPACING="0" -><TR -><TH -COLSPAN="3" -ALIGN="center" ->Samba FAQ</TH -></TR -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="10%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="bottom" -><A -HREF="faq-config.html" -ACCESSKEY="P" ->Prev</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="80%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="bottom" -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="10%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="bottom" -><A -HREF="faq-errors.html" -ACCESSKEY="N" ->Next</A -></TD -></TR -></TABLE -><HR -ALIGN="LEFT" -WIDTH="100%"></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="CHAPTER" -><H1 -><A -NAME="FAQ-CLIENTAPP" -></A ->Chapter 4. Specific client application problems</H1 -><DIV -CLASS="TOC" -><DL -><DT -><B ->Table of Contents</B -></DT -><DT ->4.1. <A -HREF="faq-clientapp.html#AEN178" ->MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</A -></DT -><DT ->4.2. <A -HREF="faq-clientapp.html#AEN183" ->How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</A -></DT -><DT ->4.3. <A -HREF="faq-clientapp.html#AEN198" ->Microsoft Access database opening errors</A -></DT -></DL -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN178" ->4.1. MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</A -></H1 -><P ->When installing MS Office on a Samba drive for which you have admin -user permissions, ie. admin users = username, you will find the -setup program unable to complete the installation.</P -><P ->To get around this problem, do the installation without admin user -permissions The problem is that MS Office Setup checks that a file is -rdonly by trying to open it for writing.</P -><P ->Admin users can always open a file for writing, as they run as root. -You just have to install as a non-admin user and then use "chown -R" -to fix the owner.</P -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN183" ->4.2. How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</A -></H1 -><P ->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.</P -><P ->The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves -running <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->X:\setup /A</B ->, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy.</P -><P ->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.</P -><P ->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.</P -><P -></P -><UL -><LI -><P ->As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed -set the following parameters on the share containing it:</P -><P -><PRE -CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" ->[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</PRE -></P -></LI -><LI -><P ->Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows -workstation as follows: <B -CLASS="COMMAND" ->\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</B -></P -></LI -></UL -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="SECT1" -><H1 -CLASS="SECT1" -><A -NAME="AEN198" ->4.3. Microsoft Access database opening errors</A -></H1 -><P ->Here are some notes on running MS-Access on a Samba drive from <A -HREF="stefank@esi.com.au" -TARGET="_top" ->Stefan Kjellberg</A -></P -><P -><P -></P -><TABLE -BORDER="0" -><TBODY -><TR -><TD ->Opening a database in 'exclusive' mode does NOT work. Samba ignores r/w/share modes on file open.</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Make sure that you open the database as 'shared' and to 'lock modified records'</TD -></TR -><TR -><TD ->Of course locking must be enabled for the particular share (smb.conf)</TD -></TR -></TBODY -></TABLE -><P -></P -></P -></DIV -></DIV -><DIV -CLASS="NAVFOOTER" -><HR -ALIGN="LEFT" -WIDTH="100%"><TABLE -SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" -WIDTH="100%" -BORDER="0" -CELLPADDING="0" -CELLSPACING="0" -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="faq-config.html" -ACCESSKEY="P" ->Prev</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="34%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="samba-faq.html" -ACCESSKEY="H" ->Home</A -></TD -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="top" -><A -HREF="faq-errors.html" -ACCESSKEY="N" ->Next</A -></TD -></TR -><TR -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="left" -VALIGN="top" ->Configuration problems</TD -><TD -WIDTH="34%" -ALIGN="center" -VALIGN="top" -> </TD -><TD -WIDTH="33%" -ALIGN="right" -VALIGN="top" ->Common errors</TD -></TR -></TABLE -></DIV -></BODY -></HTML ->
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