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Common errors"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 4. Specific client application problems</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Config.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-ClientApp"></a>Chapter 4. Specific client application problems</h2></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2808466">MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2808495">How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2808433">Microsoft Access database opening errors</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808466"></a>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</h2></div></div><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" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808495"></a>How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</h2></div></div><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>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><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> +As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed +set the following parameters on the share containing it: +</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></li><li><p>Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows +workstation as follows: <b>\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</b> +</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2808433"></a>Microsoft Access database opening errors</h2></div></div><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><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><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></table><p> +</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-Config.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-errors.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 3. Configuration problems </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 5. Common errors</td></tr></table></div></body></html> |