office XP deployment with software installation policy

[Jon Viehe]

I am attempting to deploy Office XP on WIndows XP machines on a 2000 domain.
I have created an administrative share and given read access to "domain
computers" I have then created a OU, with a test machine account in it, and
made a computer group policy to deploy the software package on the share.
The policy has read and apply group policy access to "domain computers".

The problem I am having is that it continues to say "source not available"
in the event viewer, however when logged in, I can browse to the location.
The policy does reference the UNC path, not the mapped drive. ANy ideas?

 

[Brendon Rogers]

When the install happens, the computer account is used to read the
installation files, so you need to ensure you have both the share-level and
NTFS permissions setup correctly. Either the Authorized Users or Domain
Computers (Everyone will work too, I don't like using this group).

 

[Philip Nunn]

Brendeon is right. You need to make sure "Authenticated Users" (this group
includes Domain computers and Domain users) is set with Share level
permissions and NTFS permission on the files/folders themselves.

Philip Nunn

 

[Jon Viehe]

I mentioned in the original post that I had share permissions set ot domain
computers group having read rights, but i didnt mention that the NTFS
permissions were also domain computers having read/list access. Still no go.
What next?