Re: Program that requires drive letter fails

I have not seen a failure if you do not choose the download/run AND run from
mapped drive (allowing SMS to choose drive letter). You may want to look at
the execmgr.log file for more clues...

"William Fourqurean" <wfour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The program always fails if I select the Requires Drive letter option. I
gave the other information to explain why I was using this option. I have
tested both running from the distribution point and downloading before
running, and if Requires Drive Letter, or the other selection where you
specify a drive letter is chosen, it fails. Only when it is set to Run
with
UNC name does it execute the program.

In case this helps, the "program" is actually a command script
(scriptname.cmd) that does several things in addtion to running a
setup.exe
program to install the application. I have not tested by making the
"program" a .exe file to see if it cares what kind of program that it is.
I
can run the .cmd scripts using the Run with UNC name option, so it seems
like
they should run if I select the Requires Drive Letter option.

"Steve Thompson" wrote:

"William Fourqurean" <wfour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If I create a package and a program, on the Environment tab of the
program
properties there is a section called Drive Mode. The default is Run
with
UNC
name. If I change this to Requires drive letter, the program fails. I
don't
have the exact error message, but it is "Access denied" or something
similar.
I have tried checking the Advanced Client Network Access Account, but
this
doesn't seem to be the problem.

This stems from a problem where when you create an advertisement, there
is
an Advanced Client option for "Download program from distribution
point".
I
want to use this feature, but sometimes administrators don't follow
directions closely and they leave this setting at the default of "Run
program
from distribution point." My program will fail under that circumstance
because it will not run correctly from a UNC path. So, my intention
was
to
try to map a drive letter so that it would run correctly whether it was
downloaded first or not, but the drive mapping option is not working,
either.

If you look at the status message for the failure, download/execute AND
mapped drive options are incompatible settings. You can use UNC (run from
DP) and a mapped drive option.

Steve





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