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  10 <H2><A NAME="s4">4. Specific client application problems</A></H2>
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  16 <H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of "\MSOFFICE\SETUP.INI"</A></H2>
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  21 <P>When installing MS Office on a Samba drive for which you have admin
  22 user permissions, ie. admin users = username, you will find the
  23 setup program unable to complete the installation.</P>
  24 <P>To get around this problem, do the installation without admin user
  25 permissions The problem is that MS Office Setup checks that a file is
  26 rdonly by trying to open it for writing.</P>
  27 <P>Admin users can always open a file for writing, as they run as root.
  28 You just have to install as a non-admin user and then use "chown -R"
  29 to fix the owner.</P>
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