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10<H2><A NAME="s4">4. Specific client application problems</A></H2>
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16<H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 MS Office Setup reports "Cannot change properties of '\MSOFFICE\SETUP.INI'"</A></H2>
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21When installing MS Office on a Samba drive for which you have admin
22user permissions, ie. admin users = username, you will find the
23setup program unable to complete the installation.</P>
24<P>To get around this problem, do the installation without admin user
25permissions The problem is that MS Office Setup checks that a file is
26rdonly by trying to open it for writing.</P>
27<P>Admin users can always open a file for writing, as they run as root.
28You just have to install as a non-admin user and then use "chown -R"
29to fix the owner.</P>
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