tl2020 pretest begin

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Wed Mar 4 09:11:03 CET 2020


On 04/03/2020 08:06, khzimmer at posteo.de wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> PROBLEM FOUND :)
> 
> Hi again, found the error:
> 
> If we have our user profiles mapped onto a server, then installation fails.
> If the profiles are local, all is fine.
> 
> Usually people would have C:\Users\user-name\
> but
> we have mapped that, so the path is  \\server-name\profile$\user-name\
> 
> I tested like this:
> 
> install-tl-20200303\tlpkg\tlperl\bin>perl.exe -e "if (! -d 'C:/') { 
> print 'nicht gefunden' } else { print 'gefunden' }"
> gefunden
> 
> install-tl-20200303\tlpkg\tlperl\bin>perl.exe -e "if (! -d 
> '//our-server-name/') { print 'nicht gefunden' } else { print 'gefunden' }"
> nicht gefunden
> 
> :)
> 
> Probably there's no way to change that?
> 
> And most-likely only a tiny fraction of users will have such strange 
> setup? :)

Same at work for me, but we have \\server-name\profile$\user-name mapped 
to a drive letter (U: for us). You should be able to map a network drive 
yourself to get that effect. (Lots of programs don't allow network 
paths, so I think it's a necessity anyway.)

Joseph


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