[wix-users] Installing from a mapped network drive - Force it to use UNC?

[Hoover, Jacob]

Several things can complicate this... per-user vs per-machine, is there a UI sequence (or is it a silent install), is it started as an elevated process, etc.

My biased opinion would be to bundle the MSI. From there, just pass WixBundleOriginalSourceFolder to the MSI as a property. (Tested that it works, even when elevated.)

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Patterson, Brent
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 1:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Installing from a mapped network drive - Force it to use UNC?

Right, that's why I'm trying to get UNC (actual network path) for SourceDir.  The Installshield MSI performs the same custom action, but it works somehow.  I verified that it's using SourceDir.  So if that MSI works, there must be something that I can configure for the WiX MSI to work.  At least, that's my hope :)

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Phill Hogland
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 12:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Installing from a mapped network drive - Force it to use UNC?

On Windows a mapped drive is defined in a particular user's profile, so if the registry for the elevated user has not been configured to know about that mapped drive, it won't do any good to try and generate a UNC (without also having some way of getting the drive mapping from the other user's registry profile).  I don't know of any setting that will address this issue for you.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Patterson, Brent
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 12:51 PM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-users] Installing from a mapped network drive - Force it to use UNC?

Quick question:

How do I set the MSI so it uses UNC instead of mapped drive when installing?  I have a custom action that copies over a config file that uses "SourceDir", but fails due to the MSI being elevated thereby not having access to mapped drive.  Is there a simple way of configuring an option somewhere to use UNC of a mapped drive?  I can't convert from mapped drive to UNC in the custom action as it's too late, the user executing it is admin and not the same user, even though I put "Impersonate='Yes'", so the function fails.

Thanks.

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