Musac enrol wrapper

[Patrick Dunford]

We are trying to install the WSS wrapper for Musac onto a PC and have struck problems with the setup where at the end it asks for the location of the Musac database. For 99.99999999999% of people this will be on a network drive. And guess what? The program refuses to allow network drives to be browsed. It will only browse local drives.

 

Musac support insists that I must be able to locate M:\CM on a network drive which is patently absurd so the only option I seem to have left to me is to enter this value manually, any ideas how to do this?

 

 

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Patrick Dunford

[Jonathan Webster]

Could you map a drive to your network location?

net use m: \\server\  /P:Yes

Where the DB is found in \\server\cm\

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[Patrick Dunford]

No dice. I had four network drives mapped, it wouldn’t allow me to browse any of them.

 

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Patrick Dunford
System Administrator
IDSGT Ltd
itsu...@hillview.school.nz
Ext 224 / 027 601 7163

[Peter Eaton]

A simple thing that I overlooked recently was that MUSAC apps when installing or updating in place almost always require "Run As Administrator" when launched to work correctly - I got all sorts of weird (undocumented) behaviour that support could not explain when I didn't do that.   You are probably already doing this already, but I thought it may be worth mentioning.

Pete

[Andrew Godfrey]

But if you run as administrator, won't you lose your user network mappings?

[Peter Eaton]

Possibly.  If that is the case, make a .bat/cmd script that maps the drive before running the installer - run the whole script as an admin so the drive is mapped in the correct context.

Pete

[Patrick Dunford]

That might be worth looking into. They confusingly state “you need a windows admin account” without detailing that is the step you may have to undertake.

 

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Patrick Dunford
System Administrator
IDSGT Ltd
itsu...@hillview.school.nz
Ext 224 / 027 601 7163

[J B]

I used to logon as an admin account beforehand then map drives to do the initial setup due to the whole user context switch that has been discussed.  Either the batch file or the admin logon first should let you do it.

So happy to have moved away from musac every time this kind of stuff comes up, I'll bet they're still only supporting up to windows 7 in the documentation as well.

Sent from my Windows Phone

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From: Patrick Dunford
Sent: ‎6/‎11/‎2015 10:02 PM

[Alistair Baird]

do this from a command prompt

subst A: \\server\cm

Now you have a local A: drive (nobody uses these anymore) and it acts just like a local drive, only it's a copy of the network drive. You can then tell MUSAC and it is happy. Remember having to use this.

You can delete the link with subst a: /d

Alistair Baird

IT Manager

St Peters College 

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m 021 990 259

e bai...@stpeterspn.school.nz

[Matthew Strickland]

Your other option is to add 'EnableLinkedConnections' in registry for those machines. (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System) DWORD=1

This should work for any mapped drive under a standard account with an exception; if a user maps to a folder within a share, the privileged user will map to the root, not the folder within.

Regards,

Matthew Strickland

Karamu High School