2 Contributor: John H Terpstra
4 Subject: Using a Samba share as an administrative share for MS Office, etc.
8 Microsoft Office products can be installed as an administrative installation
9 from which the application can either be run off the administratively installed
10 product that resides on a shared resource, or from which that product can be
11 installed onto workstation clients.
13 The general mechanism for implementing an adminstrative installation involves
15 X:\setup /A, where X is the drive letter of either CDROM or floppy
17 This installation process will NOT install the product for use per se, but
18 rather results in unpacking of the compressed distribution files into a target
19 shared folder. For this process you need write privilidge to the share and it
20 is desirable to enable file locking and share mode operation during this
23 Subsequent installation of MS Office from this share will FAIL unless certain
24 procautions are taken. The failure will be caused by share mode operation
25 which will prevent the MS Office installation process from re-opening various
26 dynamic link library files. Some other files will also NOT be found at times.
30 1. As soon as the administrative installation (unpacking) has completed
31 set the following parameters on the share containing it:
33 path = /where_you_put_it
34 comment = Your comment
35 volume = "The_CD_ROM_Label"
43 2. Now you are ready to run the setup program from the workstation as follows:-
44 \\"Server_Name"\MSOP95\msoffice\setup