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diff --git a/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html b/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html deleted file mode 100644 index 77e65c9f58..0000000000 --- a/docs/faq/FAQ-ClientApp.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 3. Specific client application problems</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-Install.html" title="Chapter 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-errors.html" title="Chapter 4. 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 3. 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Specific client application problems</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2817020">MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2817052">How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-ClientApp.html#id2817147">Microsoft Access database opening errors</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2817020"></a>MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\\MSOFFICE\\SETUP.INI'"</h2></div></div><div></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><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2817052"></a>How to use a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.</h2></div></div><div></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 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><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 class="command">\\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup</b> -</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2817147"></a>Microsoft Access database opening errors</h2></div></div><div></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-Install.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 2. Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 4. Common errors</td></tr></table></div></body></html> |