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+>Chapter 4. Specific client application problems</H1
+><DIV
+CLASS="SECT1"
+><H1
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+><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
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+><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
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+><H1
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+><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
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+><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
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