Re: Weird one - hard to title...

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try using the UNC instead of the mapped drive; i.e.
\\servername\users\someperson.



On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Yep knew that; sorry for the "old" phrasing :-)
>
> And that's what is puzzling me too. I'm pretty sure it has to do with
> the concatenated environment variables (%documents...)
>
> The only thing I can think off is as the local user they are authorized
> to their folder on H:\ (i.e. H:\USERS\"user") and not (obviously) the
> Root of H: and that is apparently where the software is trying to write
> too..
>
> One is software related to our business from a supplier and the other is
> a printer installation from HP!
>
> Talking to the first was fruitless and HP is even worse. I'll keep
> digging because I've GOT to get this figured out as we continue to roll
> Windows 7 out.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Weird one - hard to title...
>
> Documents: The aforementioned "Users" folder is a major difference from
> XP...  There really isn't a "Documents and Settings" or "Program Files"
> folder anymore--what you see of them are virtual representations for
> compatibility.  I've seen this cause issues with the installation of
> older software, which expects there to be a real folder set there.  I'm
> a bit confused as to why software you are installing complains about the
>
> location of the user's documents folder.  As long as H is available, it
> shouldn't matter if it's local or remote...unless...are you installing
> as administrator?  If the administrator you are running it as doesn't
> have access to H--even though the plain user *does*--then that may
> provide you with an error.  So, you may want to check the admin's
> authority, or run as someone with both local admin authority and access
> to H.
>
> Icons: There's a slider on the right-hand side of Windows Explorer that
> let's you pick the view mode.  There's some play in it, in that you can
> control the icon size a bit without sliding it far enough to pick a
> different view.
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