i suggest building two install packages. one for the server and one for workstations. Build the workstation SETUP.EXE and make it a file that the server install routine installs. Just another file that the SERVER routine installs. So the user runs the SERVER install and the directory structure on the SERVER could look like:

MyApp
MyApp\Data
MyApp\Workstion\Setup.exe

Then have the workstation users run the MyApp\Workstion\Setup.exe file to get the activex, runtimes, and everything else they need on to their PC. I would also go w/ a starter app so that the EXE is local.


>Also how would I keep someone from overwriting the tables when they did a workstation install?
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>>Joe,
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>>Why don't you want the .exe installed on the local workstation? You'll get (slightly?) better performance, and it would be easier to distribute updates...if you employ a launcher (see Nick's in downloads) an update can be deployed without kicking users out of the application. And without any additional action by each user, other than exiting the app and going back in.
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>>>I'll try to explain better. I give someone a CD with my app on it. They are going to install it on a network so that multiple users can use it. They run setup.exe and install the application exe and dbf tables to
>>>c:\program files\apps\appx. They share the directory c:\program files\ and now need to get other users computers set up. The user maps a drive "o:" to \\server\share. They need a way to install the runtimes,ocxs, and shortcuts. They don't want to run the same setup they just ran to do the network install. This would reinstall the exe and tables. So I assume I would make a new setup.exe for this. Named workstationsetup.exe, it would run and copy the runtimes, copy and register ocx's and create a shortcut that points to a drive mapped as o:. Installshield needs to create a folder on the LOCAL workstation off of "program files" called appx. In it they need a shortcut pointing to o:\apps\appx.exe. When the user is running workstationsetup.exe how can they create \program files\appx\appxshortcut and set the target of the shortcut to o:\apps\appx.exe
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