samba - Nov 1998 - Need help with 'Cannot find setup.exe Windows needs this file to

OK. Maybe I was a little terse in the description.

I have a CD we (Candle) created.  It installs one of our products by
executing the setup.exe program.  I am able to execute the program off the
CD with no problems.

I then copied the contents of the CD to the Samba share.  I try and execute
the setup.exe file and get this error.

If I then copy the files from the Samba share to /temp, I can execute the
program with no problem.

Is it possible that the program is trying to open itself as read-write,
finding that the file is read-only (because the same file has already been
opened in order to load the executable image) and not being able to because
of the file locking?

Wayne,

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 03:28:19 +1100, Wayne_Johnson@candle.com wrote:
>I am getting this error when I try to execute a WIN32 program from a Samba
>file system.
>
>The file had been on a CDRom, I copied it to the Samba file system and
>tried to run it there but I get this error.  The program runs fine from the
>CD.
Is it possible you copied the files to a part of the tree where not all path 
elements fullfill the DOS 8.3 convention?

Often SETUP.EXE is a 16bit application and does not understand "long"
pathnames.
Move the whole installation path to something like X:\SHORT and retry.

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

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Your right.  It was the fact that the path was not 8.3 compliant.  It was
"f:\roma\mpls\cdimage\rmv200tp1\windows\intel" to be exact.  Samba was
doing exactly what it should have done.  I'll have to pass this one around
the rest of the company to make sure we don't get bit by it again.

Thanks.






"Robert Dahlem" <Robert.Dahlem@frankfurt.netsurf.de> on 11/07/98
08:53:08
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Wayne,

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 03:28:19 +1100, Wayne_Johnson@candle.com wrote:
>I am getting this error when I try to execute a WIN32 program from a Samba
>file system.
>
>The file had been on a CDRom, I copied it to the Samba file system and
>tried to run it there but I get this error.  The program runs fine from
the
>CD.
Is it possible you copied the files to a part of the tree where not all
path
elements fullfill the DOS 8.3 convention?

Often SETUP.EXE is a 16bit application and does not understand "long"
pathnames.
Move the whole installation path to something like X:\SHORT and retry.

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

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Radio Bornheim - 2:2461/332@fidonet +49-69-4930830  (ZyX, V34)
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