Re: [WiX-users] Setting Folder ACL Permissions

2007-05-22 Thread Gareth at Serif
Hi John, I've dnone something similar, but while the MSI technology incorporates the LockPermissions table in order to achieve such things it actually removes any existing permissions and as such far more intrusive than you'd really want. I use SubinACL.exe from M$... the WiX looks something lik

Re: [WiX-users] Setting Folder ACL Permissions

2007-05-21 Thread Sysax Support
Is this something that is not supported in wix 2 or a limitation of Windows? If that is the case, what are others using to solve this? Thanks, John > more specifically, what ACL options should I be using to enable > ALL users on the computer to write and read files from this folder? > The permi

Re: [WiX-users] Setting Folder ACL Permissions

2007-05-18 Thread Sysax Support
more specifically, what ACL options should I be using to enable ALL users on the computer to write and read files from this folder? The permission element has a "user" attribute. What should I be passing to this? Any code snippets in v2 will be appreciated. Regards, John

Re: [WiX-users] Setting Folder ACL Permissions

2007-05-17 Thread Sysax Support
I am looking for samples for Wix version 2. Thanks, John > version 2 or version 3? I can provide version 2 snippets > On 5/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I need to create a "ProductName" folder in the >> c:\ProgramData\CompanyName\ProductName path under Vista and make

[WiX-users] Setting Folder ACL Permissions

2007-05-16 Thread sysax
I need to create a "ProductName" folder in the c:\ProgramData\CompanyName\ProductName path under Vista and make its readable and writeable by all users (by default Windows Vista allows only the user who created the file to edit the file). In my case, the product.ini file that will be placed in thi