BUG: 16-bit setup.exe issues

[Stephen Waters]

yes, that would have been my first thought except that it worked fine
off of a WinNT 4.0 server whereas it did not work on samba in the exact
same directory structure. on the samba box there is an error that says:

"Cannot find file \\server\public\\temp\setup.dll. check to ensure the
path and filename are correct and all libraries are available."

notice the second set of \\ ?  that's where long_dir_name should have
been. if i simply move the temp dir up one level to \\server\public\temp
then it works b/c there are no longer any long dir names in the UNC
path.

i also notice that there's an error in the logfile, perhaps unrelated:
[1999/09/20 12:47:32, 1] smbd/nttrans.c:call_nt_transact_ioctl(2387)
   call_nt_transact_ioctl: currently not implemented


-stephen

Allen Reese wrote:
> 
> Some versions of InstallShield, 5 IIRC, have problems launching setup off
> of a UNC path.
> 
> I was writing InstallShield installers for a while and ran into a bug
> where some 16bit setup would fail off any UNC path because the
> installshield code tries to get the drive letter of the UNC path and
> fails.  I never had 8.3 related problems, but I ran into a lot of problems
> if the drive I was trying to run the installers from was not mapped.  And
> this was only with 16bit compatible installers.  If I did a 32bit only
> installer, then it would install just fine via a UNC path, say
> \\server\share\setup.exe  whereas, if I built the same installer but with
> 16bit setuport, it wouldn't install from the UNC path under 95 unless I
> mapped the drive.  ;)
> 
> Check if the installer is an InstallShield installer, and if so that may
> be part of the problem.  If you look in their KB any 16bit IS5 installers
> have lots of UNC problems.  ;)
> 
> But then all of this was 1-2 years ago.
> 
> Allen Reese
> Senior Software Engineer
> Driversoft, Inc.
> allen at driversoft.com
> 
> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Stephen Waters wrote:
> 
> > here's the scoop:
> >
> > samba 2.0.5a on linux 2.2.12+raidpatch.
> >
> > everything seems to work great except that 16-bit setup.exe files have
> > trouble finding requisite .dlls in the current working directory if
> > there are any non-8.3-compliant directories in the path.
> >
> > e.g.,
> >
> > 2 files, setup.exe setup.dll, in \\server\public\long_dir_name\temp\
> > if execute setup.exe it will give an error saying that it cannot find
> > setup.dll; however, if i move \\server\public\long_dir_name\temp\ to
> > \\server\public\temp\ setup.exe finds setup.dll just fine.
> >
> > our Windows NT 4.0 server did not have any problems with this setup so i
> > thought either 1) there is a bug in samba or 2) the client is stupid and
> > NT has a workaround. i vote for [2], but i'd really like to see a
> > workaround.
> >
> > i changed default case to upper when trying to figure out what was
> > wrong.
> >
> >
> > -stephen waters
> > internal sysadmin
> > amicus, inc.
> >