[cvsnt] Re: MSI installer does not work from subst:ed drives

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Mon Sep 19 22:29:35 BST 2005


Bo Berglund wrote:
> It turns out that the reason it fails is that my F: drive is a subst
> drive physically located on my C: drive. I have had to do this when I
> got my new PC because I don't have extra physical drives anymore and I
> have a lot of files that were located on F: in my old PC and have ini
> settings etc thta point there. So I subst:ed the backed up tree from
> C:\DATA\F to F:.

MSI doesn't work on subst drives.. it's because they're local to your 
user and the msi service runs under LocalSystem (for this reason I 
expect cvsnt wouldn't work on subst drives either).

Tony



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