That's the way it works. If you're impersonating you're not elevated so you can't create files in C:\. If you are impersonating you can't access the network. This is why trying to do your own custom copying in these situations is frequently a bad idea.
Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Sanjay Rao [mailto:s...@noida.interrasystems.com] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 10:55 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] not able to access unc locations in deffered custom actions By other part of installer I mean immediate custom actions. and if I do do not turn off impersonate, then custom action is not able to copy files into c:\BatonBackup on windows 2008 etc. On 15-09-2010 14:02, Wilson, Phil wrote: > What is the "other part of the installer"? If it's in the UI or other code > running as the installing user I can guess it might be fine, but with > impersonation turned off you're running with the system account, and that > rarely has any network privileges. > > Phil Wilson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sanjay Rao [mailto:s...@noida.interrasystems.com] > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 1:45 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] not able to access unc locations in deffered custom > actions > > Hi, > > I have a deffered custom action( with Impersonate=no) in my installer > which copies a file from local location to unc location(network path). 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