cadams1.5524925792840708E12 asked a question.
Urgent help please - Deploying to a networked drive
I'd like to thank you all upfront for any help that you could provide.
What I am trying to do is deploy a set of files to our 140 odd schools. The files should be deployed to O:\ which is a mapping that we ask all the schools to have to make our life easy. We are deploying text based files to O:\ and in some cases also to O:\Formats. The current installer I've made detects if an O:\ is mapped and then sets the INSTALLDIR to O:\. If there isn't an O:\ then it installs to C:\. The installation is being performed by people with very little IT exposure and as such I'd like to detect the drive before I give them a change to install to another drive. I detect the drive using the following script written in VB.
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On Error Resume Next
strComputer = "." 'You could replace this with:
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
ifExists = 0
Session.Property("INSTALLDIR") = "C:\"
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
if objItem.Caption = "O:" then
ifExists = 1
end if
NEXT
if ifExists = 1 then
Session.Property("INSTALLDIR") = "O:\"
'wscript.echo "Found"
end if
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Now the major problem is that each school implements their own network so some are MS based, others are UNIX and others are Novell. I'm not sure if this is a problem but my installer doesn't work in some cases. There maybe an O:\ but it isn't detected. Our UNC paths should be \\xxxxadm01\maze 7\ where xxxx is a different code in every school.
Can anyone suggeest a better way or shed some light on why my installer won't work in all cases? I'm using InstallShield 10.5
Thanks
Cam
This could be a tough one, considering you have such a diverse environment.