Error 1327 during assigned installation

[Vadim Rapp]

Hello:

An installation assigned to the user in GPO with "install during logon"
fails (after CostFinalize, rc=3) with error 1327 "Invalid drive U:". Drive
U: is user's home folder specified in active directory. After the logon,
drive U: is available, and the same installation, when launched manually,
succeeds.

What might be the problem?

User has XP SP1; The network is Win2K acttive directory.


Thanks,

Vadim Rapp

 

[Guest]

Is the network share where the application located on the U drive?
Would this application write anything to the users home folder?
My guess would be that the installation is starting before the U drive is
mapped successfully for the user.

 

[Vadim Rapp]

Hello (e-mail address removed):
You wrote on Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:54:56 -0500:

j> Is the network share where the application located on the U drive?

No

j> Would this application write anything to the users home folder?

It does not write to U:, but its CostFinalize, apparently, is trying to
figure out some info about it.

j> My guess would be that the installation is starting before the U drive
j> is mapped successfully for the user.

Probably so. Is there a way to change that?


thanks,

Vadim

 

[Guest]

Maybe map the users home folder in the script before the application or put
a pause that requres the user to click to continue.
Im, not good at scripting but one other idea would be to have the logon
script "poll" for the U drive untill it is successful and then call a second
script for the actual application.

 

[Guest]

CostFinalize checks all directory table entries. Apparently you are
referencing that U: drive somehow in your directory table, or in a directory
property. I guess in the situation where you install via GPO that U: drive is
not mapped.
The best solution may be to remove the reference to U: from your setup.

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Maybe map the users home folder in the script before the application or put
a pause that requres the user to click to continue.
Im, not good at scripting but one other idea would be to have the logon
script "poll" for the U drive untill it is successful and then call a second
script for the actual application.

--
James Brandt [MSFT]

Hello (e-mail address removed):
You wrote on Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:54:56 -0500:

j> Is the network share where the application located on the U drive?

No

j> Would this application write anything to the users home folder?

It does not write to U:, but its CostFinalize, apparently, is trying to
figure out some info about it.

j> My guess would be that the installation is starting before the U drive
j> is mapped successfully for the user.

Probably so. Is there a way to change that?


thanks,

Vadim