2 !== Application_Serving.txt for Samba release TNG-prealpha 11 Feb 2000
4 Contributed: January 7, 1997
5 Updated: March 24, 1998
6 Contributor: John H Terpstra <samba-bugs@samba.org>
7 Copyright (C) 1997 - John H Terpstra
10 Subject: Using a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.
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15 Microsoft Office products can be installed as an administrative installation
16 from which the application can either be run off the administratively installed
17 product that resides on a shared resource, or from which that product can be
18 installed onto workstation clients.
20 The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves
22 X:\setup /A, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy
24 This installation process will NOT install the product for use per se, but
25 rather results in unpacking of the compressed distribution files into a target
26 shared folder. For this process you need write privilidge to the share and it
27 is desirable to enable file locking and share mode operation during this
30 Subsequent installation of MS Office from this share will FAIL unless certain
31 precautions are taken. This failure will be caused by share mode operation
32 which will prevent the MS Office installation process from re-opening various
33 dynamic link library files and will cause sporadic file not found problems.
37 1. As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed
38 set the following parameters on the share containing it:
40 path = /where_you_put_it
41 comment = Your comment
42 volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label"
50 2. Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows
51 workstation as follows:-
52 \\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup
54 MS Office Sharing - Please note:
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57 Workgroup Templates should be stored on an ordinary writable or read-only share
58 but USER templates MUST be stored on a writable share _OR_ on the users' local