3 Contributor: John H Terpstra <samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au>
6 Subject: Using a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.
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11 Microsoft Office products can be installed as an administrative installation
12 from which the application can either be run off the administratively installed
13 product that resides on a shared resource, or from which that product can be
14 installed onto workstation clients.
16 The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves
18 X:\setup /A, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy
20 This installation process will NOT install the product for use per se, but
21 rather results in unpacking of the compressed distribution files into a target
22 shared folder. For this process you need write privilidge to the share and it
23 is desirable to enable file locking and share mode operation during this
26 Subsequent installation of MS Office from this share will FAIL unless certain
27 precautions are taken. This failure will be caused by share mode operation
28 which will prevent the MS Office installation process from re-opening various
29 dynamic link library files and will cause sporadic file not found problems.
33 1. As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed
34 set the following parameters on the share containing it:
36 path = /where_you_put_it
37 comment = Your comment
38 volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label"
46 2. Now you are ready to run the setup program from the Microsoft Windows
47 workstation as follows:-
48 \\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup