network map drive not accessible - network-drive

I am having a VC++ exe which calls network map drive with alphabet name "M" (M: \server-ip\sharename). Based on the business, it copies some files to the network shared folder and it is working fine.
The problem is, when I call VC++ exe from .NET application using Process.Start(startInfo) the network map drive is throwing exception saying netwrok not found.
In some user PCs it is working fine even called from .net app. We are using .NET framework 3.5 with sp1 and OS is XP. Please help me in resolving this. I tried even CASPOL.exe to give the full trust to network share.

Instead of starting your VC++ EXE you could start a command shell (cmd.exe) and look for yourself if the network drive exists.
If not it I'd look which user context your program and the cmd.exe are running under and make sure it is the same user and this user has the network drive.

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'"php.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I am trying to create a new zend project using wamp.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\> cd wamp\www\zendtest*
C:\wamp\www\zendtest>C:\wamp\www\zend\bin\zf.bat create project quickstart*
'"php.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\wamp\www\zendtest>
I the environment variable path is
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\FUNCTION;C:\Program Files\Zend\MySQL51\bin;C:\wamp\www\zend\bin;
Which is the part I think is wrong.
Replace this line in the zf.bat file
SET PHP_BIN=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\php.exe
I too have come across the same Error when i started Zend. Here are some ways how to troubleshoot this.
Make Sure the PHP Interpreter Path (For Example, C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.8\bin) is set to the Environment Variables Path. Only one PHP Interpreter can be set.
Make Sure your WAMP Folder & the work directory (For Example, www directory) have valid permission set for proper Execution.
Make Sure your Antivirus/Firewall or any other Software is blocking the Access to php.exe. This i said because, in Windows 7 the User Access Control Feature will not allow execution of php.exe from command line.
And i suggest you work with NetBeans 7.2 which has built-in Support for Zend as well as Doctrine ORM. This is much easier. But you will have to execute the above techniques in that too in the Initial State. The Commands can be directly executed from NetBeans Context Menu.
Came across this error on a new installation even if I added the Environement Path to Windows.
If NetBeans is running, you need to start it as these variables are loaded on startup.

Netbeans: Remote project w/source files over SSH?

Is it possible to set up a remote NetBeans C++ project where the source files are only accessible via SSH?
My project needs to build on a Linux box, but I'd like to develop it on a Windows machine.
Checking out the code via SVN to my Windows machine is not an option since there are a few files that differ only by case, and NTFS is not case sensitive (unfortunately, I can not change them).
I'm well aware that Windows can be kind-of forced be case-aware and the ideal solution is to just re-name those file to something sane.
However, I'm just trying to solve this using NetBeans. Since it's a remote project anyway, why bother to keep any files locally.
Thanks
Currently, no. In general programming files with different cases of the same name is a bad practice.
You can enable case sensitivity in Windows - you may need to have a Professional version or better.
For Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817921
For Windows 7: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732389.aspx
See also: Windows Services for Unix
Another solution would be to setup VNC/RDP on the remote Unix system. The overall solution should be to conform to a better file naming convention:
Programmer 1: "Hey man, take a look at noCamelCase.cs - I just rewrote it."
Programmer 2: "Um, nocamelcase.cs is blank."
There are two ways of doing remote builds with Netbeans. The first, the project is stored locally. You just create a regular project and on the 2nd page of the wizard you specify the network directory with the source and the remote build host. I've used this for Solaris client to Linux server, but not from Windows as we don't have the mounts exported by SMB. This uses ssh and some shared lib interposers to get the build info.
The second way is to create a remote project. In this case the project is created on the remote host and date is copied on demand to the client. I've only doe a few tests with this as I preferred the first method as it had much better latency.
Lastly, you could either use vnc or install X on your windows machine and do everything on the Linux machine.

Recommended approach to deploy VMware PowerCLI command line console application

PowerCLI with .NET has some dependencies on dll's that you get only when you install PowerCLI on each machine you want to run.
I have a console app with command line arguments, which when deployed using the usual method doesn't work because of the unmet dependencies...these assemblies are part of the GAC.
Clickonce deployment proved to be useless..it didnt recognize my arguments although I passed them as query params.
Finally, I installed VMware PowerCLI on this remote machine. Then ran the .exe and it worked. Is there a way to avoid installing PowerCLI and be able to include all the dependencies with my exe during deployment?
Depending on where exactly you want to deploy your console application, you may be out of luck. According to this page and the most relevant forum post I could find, the PowerCLI assemblies are not redistributable. Your best bet if you want to distribute this application outside your company is to use the Web Services SDK - a huge pain since you've already developed the app.
Assuming your application is for internal use only and you just want to deploy it on its destination server, you can do the following to reference the assemblies locally:
On the development machine, copy whichever PowerCLI .dlls you reference from the GAC (in %WINDIR%\assembly) to your solutions local directory.
Change your references in the project to point to the local versions of the .dlls.
Open the 'Properties' view for each of the references, and make sure 'Copy Local' is set to True.
Compile and deploy your console application (and it's coresident .dlls) to the target machine, it should reference them in the local directory and run without external dependencies.
Hope that helps!
You could also automate PowerCLI installation with a silent installation one-line Powershell script, if the problem is hiding the installation from the users.
Invoke-Expression ("cmd /c '$powerCLIexeFilePath'/S /VADDLOCAL=ALL /V/qn")

Correct deployment tool to copy files & run SQL Script

What would be the best way to deploy upgrades to a piece of software with the following requirements:
The upgrade:
Must be run from a client machine, not a server.
Must Show a dialog to select a network location and copy files to a share.
Must show a dialog to enter SQL Server connection information and the upgrade must connect to SQL Server to run an upgrade script.
Must not change anything on the client machine from which the upgrade is run. (Nothing in Add/Remove programs, registry, etc. I.e. no Windows Installer.)
Must not rely on any additional dlls or frameworks. The user must be able to download a single file and run it from Windows XP SP2 without having to install anything else.
Some things I have looked into:
Batch files (can’t show a dialog to allow the user to enter connection information)
OSQL (can’t show a dialog and can’t copy files)
WiX (runs on top of Windows Installer so it puts things on the client machine from which it is run)
Custom C#/VB app (requires .NET framework)
Winzip/WinRAR (can't show a dialog, can’t run SQL Scripts)
If you don't want to rely on any dlls and frameworks, you should make a native app, this can be, for example, custom winrar sfx (you can run additional scripts after extraction, this can be a batch that executes sqlcmd).

MSI File/Registry failures on Windows Server 2008/Windows 7 (x64)

I'm trying to deploy an application on Windows Server 2008 (SP2 x64) and Windows 7 (x64), using VS2005 Installer Project. The MSI version (I think) it the 2.0.
Everything works fine, except that some registry keys and some files are not copied on the install machine. The MSI system doesn't notify about nothing (and I don't know whether MSI logs its operations).
Are there incompatibilities between my MSI installer project and these new OSes? It seems to me that the OS protect itself for being modified in some part.
For example, I'm trying to set the registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\WinLogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList\User
but it is not created. In the same installer there are many other keys, which are created like expected (as they always did before on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003).
To provide another example, I'm trying to install the file
%SystemFolder%\oobe\info\backgrounds\backgroundDefault.jpg
(where %SystemFolder% is typically "C:\Windows\System32"), but the file is not copied at all!!!
What's going on?
I've found the backgroundDefault.jpg file is located in another directory: %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\oobe\info.
But I've not specified nothing about a System (64 bit) folder. How can I copy the file in the right place?
First, regarding logging, you can request MSI to create a log file of its operations like this:
msiexec.exe -i my_msi_file.msi -l*vx logfile.txt
This will create a log file called logfile.txt.
Second, it sounds like you're creating a 32-bit MSI and running it in 64-bit Windows. There is nothing wrong with this, but be aware that Windows is using file system redirection. Windows has a separate SystemFolder and HKLM/SOFTWARE keys to host 32-bit applications. If you look in the Registry at HKLM/SOFTWARE you'll probably see a sub-key called Wow6432Node -- this is where 32-bit apps write their Registry data.