I recently packaged an application and I have the strangest problem. If i doulbe click on the MSI file it installs fine. If i remotely install (using MSIEXEC or our altiris solution) I get the error:
Error 1327.Invalid Drive: R:\
Now the software does use our R: Drive to function, but like I said if I double click on the file it works. Any other way and I get the error.
Does anyone know what is causing this or how to fix it
It should mean that the R drive is not connected when you launch that install. You can put ina custom action to subst (subst command from DOS prompt) or temporarily map the R drive at install time then unmap at the end of the install.
Funny thing is the R drive is mapped during install time. Just as a test, I copied the MSI package to the R: drive. Again if i double click on the MSI from the R Drive (My computer -> R Drive) the installation goes perfectly. If I try to script it (using the MSIEXEC or our Altiris solution) it fails stating that the R drive is invalid. How can it be invalid if that is where the installtion was started from?
When Altiris performs the installation, it uses a system account, which does not have access to R drive connected with different user credentials. Depending on how R drive is used during installation, there may or may not be a workaround.
