On Dec 24, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Adam Peck wrote: You can always create a DMG and mount it from the share to install it. Adam -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+adampeck=email@hidden[ mailto:installer-dev-bounces+adampeck=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Iceberg-Dev Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:20 AM To: Naveena Chandra Cc: email@hiddenSubject: 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.
10.4 and below packages must be in containers if you are storing them or transferring them over smb, http, ftp. They should be fine if stored on AFP shares with HFS Extended format.
10.5 packages (flat file format) can be stored anywhere without too much issue.
You should be putting these packages into containers for storing on SMB shares.
Containers can be zip archives, disk images, or maybe other archives.
Also, you can copy the installer package to the local computer before install.
Rusty
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