Hi Folks,
I'm trying to address the Windows requirement that software not attempt to
write to certain locations.
Now I know the easiest solution to this is to install programs to the root
and then, assuming I grant appropriate permissions to the user, the
software can write to that location.
But I'm trying to be "good". :)
My problem is that I want the error log file to be accessible to me across
the LAN. Right now, I just share out the program location to me as domain
administrator and then I can pick up the error log file from there.
I need to have that location shared to me in any case, because that's how I
do software updates; I just go through all the machines visible on the
network and drop copies into those locations.
But if my software is installed in C:\Program Files\My Program and the log
files will be written to C:\Users\[some user]\AppData\[some folder]\, how
can I get to that location without having to share the user's AppData folder?
I know that I can put a shortcut on the desktop to that folder and it will
work even though AppData is normally hidden. So presumeably I could put a
shortcut in the program installation location that points to where the log
files will go... except that I can't create that shortcut in a generic way.
I keep trying various permutations on
\\%COMPUTERNAME%\%USERNAME%\somewhere\, but that always resolves to the
local versions of those values on the machine I'm trying to access the
share from.
How can I get the shortcut to actually open the location on the OTHER
machine, and not mine?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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