Hello Tim, To avoid unecessary delays during installation (because the system service will be unable to access the UNC path during shortcut creation) i always recommend creating a stub executable which starts the executable on the server.
Regards, Fabio On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Tim Musschoot <tim.mussch...@telenet.be>wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to create a shortcut to an executable file that is already > present, but resides on a file share (ex: \\myserver\mydir\myapp.exe). > It is not a best practice, but it is a way to wrap a legacy application in > a MSI package. > > The shortcut should be placed on the users desktop (all users). > > Thanks for the help, > Tim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
