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16 <H2><A NAME=
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"Cannot change properties of '\MSOFFICE\SETUP.INI'"</A></H2>
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21 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.
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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.
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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"
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