Re: Having problems creating a installer for my app due to permissions?
- From: Andrew Meador <ameador1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:17:40 -0800
On Nov 6, 6:05 am, Pep <pepaltavi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If there is no way around their installation issues, maybe create a
script that they could also download to automatically add the file
extensions. That would at least make it easier than talking them
through it all the time (at least in such detail).
Okay that sounds like a plan. I have not done a lot of work using the
microsoft installer so am still hopelessly in the middle of my
learning curve, so guess I'll have to do more investigation :)
Is it possible using this approach to get the installer to execute a
script to set the file associations in explorer as part of the
installation process?
Sorry, I didn't notice these last few messages to this posting...
I have done a bit of testing and looking around and don't see a
solution for you. Users running under User permissions cannot change
or create file extension mappings. So, even if you can create create a
script to create the mappings (which I did find at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/guiguy/fldopts2.mspx),
a User level user still cannot configured them. So, my original idea
seems dead. I think it is going to have to come down to doing an
install the requires admin priveleges or do it the way you have been.
You could still do a script to help them setup the folder and copy the
app to it and such, but I don't see a way to fix your file extension
mapping problem.
I still disagree here - I have had too many users download and
install software that I don't want in my network (bandwidth suckers,
illegal licensing, etc...) Yep, I'm a control freak, and I can't be if
they can install whatever they want. Plus, for issues like this, I
have scanners that watch their file systems for rogue files and remove
them as well - if I didn't want their downloaded exe to run I'd add it
to the list to be killed.
Sounds like you have things under your complete control :)
As much as possible anyway. Well I wouldn't say that, I could lock
things down even more, but I find this is a good compromise.
Fortunately for me, most of the people working on my network at work
are nix developers and administrators so we tend not to download too
much eye candy and bandwidth hoggers. Now at home it's a completely
different ball game, there anything seems to go and the only control
freaks are my girls and missus :)
Hehe, the users in my case are all just that - regular office users...
they are not techie by any means... if they were, I would probably
open things up a bit. It's the ones that don't know what they're doing
that tend to cause the most damage. At least with techies, they can
fix it themselves!
Have you ever tried denying your missus the complete admin rights to
both her computer and yours?
Hehe, I actually do. My wife has user permissions and I run a server
at home where I use group policies to restrict my kids computers down
even further. If that doesn't work well eneough, I ban their systems
(the kids anyway) from the internet. I have them setup with wireless
NICs in their desktops and cut access from the wireless router. I'm so
mean! ;)
Well, Good Luck!
Andrew
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