Streets and Trips 2004 Network Installation
Mark Scatamacchia
my Tablet PC. I have a desktop on a network which I have
the cd drive shared with my tablet so I can install
software (the Tablet has no disk drives).
When I tried to install my Streets and Trips 2002 this
way it would not let me. Can I do a network installation
with Microsoft Streets and Trips 2004?
Howard Cross
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Mark -- It appears as though the answer is yes. I found the following in a
post on 04/06/20. Looks like a solution... BTW - It may be worth investing
in a firewire drive that can be used with the tablet.
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I googled streets 2004 administrative installation and found the following
post from Gilles)...gb
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:04:46 -0800, "Brian" <ir...@cwnet.com> wrote:
>I have the new version of Microsoft Sreets and Trips
>2004... The problem is that it will not install. It keeps
>saying that I need Administrator Approval. I am the only
>user of my computer. When I installed WinXP I entered no
>passwords under my name of administrator. I have trid
>going into Safe mode but it will not install under safe
>mode.
Hmm, what is the exact error message you get ?
Anyway Sometimes, S&T thinks that you're not installing from a genuine
CD drive but from a network (I ignore why and haven't found a reason
yet), and the corresponding message means: "Hey, you're probably a
corporate user trying to install from a network CD drive directly,
that won't work (someone may remove the CD), have your admin do an
administrative install first and then you can install from what he's
prepared for you".
OK, that's exactly what we're going to do, wearing an admin hat first
and a user hat second. The only difference will be that our
"administrative install on the network" won't be performed by a
corporate admin, and won't be on a network either :-)
The bad news is that you'll need plenty of space on your HD for this,
but if you've got it, you won't need the CDs to run S&T later, and you
can recover the additional overhead that is temporarily needed. You'll
need about 2.5 Gigs of free space (estimated).
OK, wearing the admin hat:
+ insert the first S&T CDROM (the one labelled "Setup") into your CD
drive. If it tries to autorun and install, abort that.
+ Click "Start", "Run ..." and type
D:SETUP_ST /a
Replace "D:" in there with the letter of your CD Drive should it
differ. Make sure you enter the rest exactly right then press the
return key.
+ S&T will tell you that it'll perform a server installation, and
suggest installing to C:\STREETS. Accept this target location (unless
you do not have enough space on that drive and have another one with
more space)
+ S&T will now copy the files, so that a _user_ (we will be wearing
that har later) will be able to install from this "server location",
without getting the error message.
+ When S&T asks you to insert the "Run Disc", do so.
(Ignore the slightly misleading "Installation Successful" message -
we're not done yet)
Well, the admin's done - remove that hat now, and wear your user hat
:-)
+ Start Explorer, and find the "STREETS" directory we just created.
Double-click the SETUP_ST that is inside.
If it wants to update system files, let it do so.
+ Make sure you specify a "Full installation".
+ Follow the prompts. At the end it may want to reboot.
+ When the installation is finished, remove the CD, and rename the
"STREETS" directory to something else, e.g. "STREETS_DEL". Then check
out if S&T runs correctly.
If it does, delete the STREETS_DEL "administrative installation point"
to recover the additional space it takes up.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Gilles [MVP].
craig
eh?
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Howard Cross
use on the road. I soon quit carrying the floppy drive and started carrying
a 256MB usb flash drive. A much better solution than the floppy but there
are a few clients where their OS doesn't recognize the drive.
I'm not a fan of admin installs unless you're using servers in our network
which I'm not in my case.
If you haven't heard, there are rumors that XP SP2 will be available soon. I
heard that we should be able to order cd to update our systems. It seems
like MS is encouraging us to the auto-update process. Seems like that will
be better than the admin install unless you're on dial-up... ;)
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howard
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