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by tprattbp 1 view

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I have a remote WIN98 client that accesses our NT4.0 network thru a DSL internet connection and then uses a VPN. He can browse the network & all available resourses, map a network drive or add a network printer. When we try to access a executable file that opens up an installation wizard to install client software on his PC it begins fine but then errors out with either a "corrupt file detected" error or Network Drive Error. I have tried three different programs that require client software to be installed from the network drive all give the same message. The vendor did not have any solution.

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by sir keg

I don't know what is causeing the error.
but have you tryed haveing the client DL the software and runing the installation local and using lookup to a URL pathname?

what might be happaning is the x:\who\cares
is becomeing \\who\cares
inplace of \\server\who\cares
that would give that error. but i have only seen it when I built the installation that did that.

something to try.

by shanghai sam

We did try running the installation locally but it would not work. The way the vendor wrote the script it expects to see a mapped drive. We were successful with one of the programs by finding out what files were needed & where they needed to be. But there still is another program that gives the same error that we have been unsuccessful with.

by williewortel

You are on the right track. If you've placed the installtion files locally, map a network drive to your local installation files (like NET USE X: \\WIN98CLIENT \INSTALLFILES) and install your program from X:.

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