Re: MiKTeX installation problem

The point is that the installation program does not continue after this 
error and states it was not successful. Also, I had similar problems 
when attempting to install to a local drive. In both cases, the 
directory specified does exist, if it was not for the forward slashes.

Thus, I am stuck at this point, as I cannot complete the installation.

Am 27.01.2017 um 12:51 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:41:39PM +0100, Kristian Schilling wrote:
>> Hello all, I am requesting assistance in setting up MiKTeX in a network
>> environment. After 10 years, I am figuring it is time for an update.
>>
>> We have a number of workstations with identically mapped drives. To
>> date, the TeX system was located on the server, including all
>> executables and accessories, such as GhostScript etc. This made
>> maintenance easy and saved disc space on the client computers.
>>
>> At first I thought the "Rollout MiKTeX in your organization" option was
>> fit for us, but it appears that only a repository is maintained on the
>> server, and a full 400 MB installation is made into every client system.
>> This is not what we want. I figured that a Basic Install *to a mapped
>> drive* is actually the right thing to do. By this, the executables and
>> all other TeX files will be on the server, and the correct locations of
>> all files will be present on a client after performing basic
>> installation and probably running initex. I guess one will have to run
>> through the full installation on *every* client once, but future updates
>> on the server structure will then reflect on every client, again, after
>> running initex.
>>
>> The problem I encounter is obviously a hard coded path that cannot be
>> found for apparent reasons. I get this message near the end of the
>> installation procedure:
>>
>> fileName="Q:\texmf\miktex/bin/x64\initexmf.exe", arguments="--force
>> --mklinks --admin --log-file=Q:\texmf\miktex/config\uninst.log
>> --verbose", exitCode="1"
>>
>> There are some slashes where there should be backslashes, I don't think
>> I can do something about it.
>>
>> I can probably circumvent this by running initexmf manually, but I do
>> not know what else might be necessary after this command which
>> apparently causes the setup program to abort.
>>
>> Any advice is appreciated. Apologies if I might have overlooked
>> something while browsing the archives.
> For our university, I am doing something like that with TeX Live; see
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/w32client.html A complete TeX Live and
> supporting programs are on a network drive, and a launcher program
> contains menus and buttons to start programs, and also takes care of
> configuration.
>
> As to your problems: forward slashes often work fine.
>
> The Q:-drive reminds me of application virtualization; a system to
> ensure that programs do not see each other. As far as I can make
> out, only the program itself can see inside such a directory.
>
> But without knowing more, I may be totally wrong about this.
>

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