RE: Installer not working from an SMB share
RE: Installer not working from an SMB share
- Subject: RE: Installer not working from an SMB share
- From: Adam Peck <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:23:10 -0700
- Thread-topic: Installer not working from an SMB share
You can always create a DMG and mount it from the share to install it.
Adam
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Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:20 AM
To: Naveena Chandra
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Subject: Re: Installer not working from an SMB share
On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Naveena Chandra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building a Packagemaker based installer. It works fine in all
> cases except when launched from a SMB share.
>
> When i place this installer in a SMB shared volume and connect to
> this share from a Mac, the installer when launched, launches to put
> up this dialog:
>
> "The Package cannot be installed from network volume. Copy the
> package to a local volume and try again".
>
> So is it that the packagemaker was never designed to work from a
> SMB network share? Or am i missing out on something?
It's not working from any network volumes.
There used to be good reasons for this with the old package format
and because of problems with Appleshare.
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