Microsoft KB Archive/119158

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PowerPoint 4.0 FastTips: Network Setup Questions & Answers
Last reviewed: December 16, 1996

Article ID: Q119158

The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c

SUMMARY
The following is the complete contents of the FastTips Questions and Answers article titled &quot;Q119158: Networks Setup Questions & Answers.&quot; Q119158 is part of the FastTips Questions and Answers section for Microsoft PowerPoint versions 4.0 and 4.0a for Windows.

Microsoft(R) Product Support Services Application Note (Text File) Q119158: Network Setup Questions & Answers Revision Date: 08/94 6 Pages, No Disk The following information applies to Microsoft PowerPoint versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c for Windows.


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1. Q. How do I install Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows on a       network?

A. You can easily set up PowerPoint 4.0 on a network by using its built in network Setup feature. For detailed instructions about setting up PowerPoint 4.0 on a network, please refer to your &quot;Microsoft PowerPoint User's Guide.&quot;

2. Q. I have Microsoft Office 4.0 installed on a network and just received the Microsoft Office 4.2 upgrade. Is there anything I     need to know about the upgrade installation to the network?

A. The Microsoft Office 4.2 Administrative setup must be installed to an     empty directory. Perform the following three-step procedure to     upgrade from Microsoft Office 4.0 to Office 4.2 on a network:

1. Install Office 4.2 into a different shared location than Office 4.0. This means the MSAPPS directory should ALSO be installed to a        different location that the MSAPPS directory that was installed with Microsoft Office 4.0.

2. Have everyone using Microsoft Office 4.0 upgrade to the new Office 4.2 installation.

3. When all upgrades are completed, delete the 4.0 version of        Microsoft Office from its shared location.

3. Q. When running a workstation installation of PowerPoint 4.0 with a     modified SETUP.STF file, I get the following error: &quot;Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 Setup was not completed successfully&quot; at the end of     setup. Why am I getting this error and how do I correct the problem?

A. The error occurs if you have specified an invalid directory name as     the destination directory in the SETUP.STF file. To specify a     directory where Setup installs PowerPoint, scroll through the table until you see &quot;Network Installation&quot; in the third column. Replace the &quot;%1&quot; in the DestDir column of this row with the name of the directory where you want Setup to install PowerPoint. For the directory name to     be valid, it must contain a trailing backslash. For example:

X:\USER\PPTDIR        This is an invalid directory name

X:\USER\PPTDIR\       This is a valid directory name

4. Q. To conserve hard drive space, we installed Microsoft ClipArt Gallery as a shared application on a network, and then performed a     workstation installation on a computer running Windows locally. However, we noticed that more than 6 megabytes of hard drive space is taken up on each workstation. Is there any way we can decrease the amount of hard drive space on the workstation installation?

A. Using this procedure, ClipArt Gallery by design writes the ARTGALRY.IDX and ARTGALRY.THM files to the local hard disk drive. The individual users can them modify these files. However, the files may require as much as 6 megabytes of hard disk space. In some cases, it     is desirable to have only one copy of each of these files and to      store them on a network drive.

5. Q. When running a workstation setup of Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0, I     receive the error message &quot;ACMSetup caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE.&quot; How do I eliminate this error?

A. PowerPoint may generate this error if it cannot modify the system files. This can occur if there is a line in the [386Enh] section of     the SYSTEM.INI that reads

device=

with nothing after it. If you delete this line or comment it out by     putting a semicolon  at the beginning of this line, you should be      able to run PowerPoint Setup successfully.

6. Q. We are running PowerPoint on a LANtastic network where Windows is     local and PowerPoint is shared. When more than one workstation tries to access PowerPoint, they get a sharing violation on the network drive followed by the error message &quot;Cannot find POWERPOINT.DLL.&quot; How can multiple users access PowerPoint at the same time?

A. For multiple users to run PowerPoint simultaneously, the directories on the server need to be marked as read-only by doing one of the following two steps:

1. At the MS-DOS prompt, type &quot;attrib&quot; (without the quotation        marks) and change the attributes from archive to read only. (For more information about the ATTRIB command, see your MS-DOS        manual.)

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2. Mark the entire drive as read only (see you LANtastic Network        documentation).

7. Q. At the end of my administrative setup of PowerPoint 4.0 to a Novell network, I get the error message &quot;Cannot change the properties of SETUP.INI&quot; or the message &quot;Cannot change properties of the file named _MSSETUP.EXE.&quot; Why am I getting these errors?

A. These errors are generated if the SETUP.INI file is marked as read- only. If you receive this error message, try one of the following two methods to correct the problem.

METHOD 1: Delete the original SETUP.INI file from your drive. This is     because the original SETUP.INI file may still be present as a Read- Only file. To resolve the problem, delete the original SETUP.INI file from your drive before running setup.

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METHOD 2. Modify the NET.CFG or SHELL.CFG file by using the following five-step procedure.

NOTE: To make this process easier to follow, we recommend that you obtain a copy of this document by ordering article Q119158 from the Microsoft PowerPoint FastTips Catalog.

IMPORTANT: If the workstation is using the NetWare DOS Requester version 1.1, skip the following and go to question 8.

1. Locate the file SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG on the workstation from which you are running PowerPoint 4.0 SETUP /A. If this file does not exist, create it using a text editor and place it   in         the same directory as NETX.COM.

2. Open the file SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG in a text editor. Change or create the line that reads

READ ONLY COMPATIBILITY=ON

to:

READ ONLY COMPATIBILITY=OFF

(This line is located in the &quot;NetWare DOS Requester&quot; section        of NET.CFG if you are using Novell NetWare 4.0.)

3. Log off of the network and restart the workstation.

4. Log on to the network, start Windows, and run SETUP /A from the Microsoft Office integrated setup to install the application.

5. When the application is installed, change the option in the SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG file back to =ON in case there are applications on the system that require this setting.

8. Q. I am using Novell's NetWare DOS Requester version 1.1 and getting the errors listed in question number 7, &quot;Cannot change the properties of SETUP.INI&quot; or the message &quot;Cannot change properties of the file named _MSSETUP.EXE.&quot; How do I resolve the problem?

A. If you are running NetWare DOS Requester version 1.1, use the following six-step procedure to resolve the problem.

NOTE: To make this process easier to follow, we recommend that you obtain a copy of this document by ordering article Q119158 from the Microsoft PowerPoint FastTips Catalog.

1. Locate the file SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG on the workstation from which you are running PowerPoint 4.0 SETUP /A. If this file does not exist, create it using a text editor and place it   in         the same directory as NETX.COM.

2. Open the file SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG in a text editor. Change or create the line that reads

READ ONLY COMPATIBILITY=ON

to:

READ ONLY COMPATIBILITY=OFF

(This line is located in the &quot;NetWare DOS Requester&quot; section        of NET.CFG if you are using Novell NetWare 4.0.)

3. Remove NetWare DOS Requester version 1.1 and use IPX/NETX to     complete the administrative setup. If you CANNOT use NETX, you can install NetWare DOS Requester version 1.0. However, because reinstalling NetWare DOS Requester version 1.0 is very time consuming, using NETX is the preferred method.

4. Log off of the network and restart the workstation.

5. Log on to the network, start Windows, and run SETUP /A from the setup disk to install the application.

6. When the application is installed, change the option in the SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG file back to =ON in case there are applications on the system that require this setting. You can also use NetWare DOS Requester version 1.1 again without experiencing any problems.

9. Q. How much disk space do I need to install PowerPoint 4.0 on     a network?

A. For a workstation installation, you need at least 2 megabytes available on your local hard drive or in your user directory, but you may need more depending on how your system administrator configured the administrator's installation. If you want to perform an     administrator's installation on a network file server or a shared directory, you need 40 megabytes of available space on the file server or in the shared directory. The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

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