site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com -pmb _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... At 6:27 PM -0400 6/30/06, Philip D. Wasson wrote: I just discovered that my built packages cannot be installed when they're located on a fileserver. If accessed via AFP, I get "Error Reading Package. The package can not be installed from a network volume.[...]"; if accessed via SMB, it's less friendly. I saw a little discussion about this in a different list's archives (system imaging?), but I didn't find a resolution. So can anyone tell me what conditions will allow or prevent installation off a fileserver? Packages that require admin authorization cause the installer's unarchiving engine to run as root so that the files being created can be created with the correct users, groups, and permissions. For security reasons, most network filesystems do not allow the root user to read files. So until the Installer refactors its unarchiving code into two processes (one to read, one to write), it usually can't read auth-required packages from a network volume. <rdar://problem/3508076> Cannot open auth-required package on network volume if "other" has no access [permissions] This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com