office 2003 unattended and source files

[decoy5657]

I used the office 2003 resource kit to create a quiet installer that set up all of my options for Office 2003 Professional ( @ work ) This worked great! one of the reasons I love office 2003 is that it will keep the installation source local to the computer, so when the next user logs in, he/she won't have to pull the source cabs across the network... VERY nice....

Service pack one rolls along, so I did the setup.exe /a and did the administrative install point. Now when a user logs on, it begins to search for the install source.... which isn't what I had in mind, since regular users on this network dont have access to the source.....

If anyone could offer a hand of advice!

[willpantin]

Using XP SP2 Unattended install, I noticed this same problem. However, if you leave "Access" out of the administrative install options, it seems to install fine.

I hope this problem does get addressed, so that we can install Access as well.

[decoy5657]

I guess for the time being I will just add a share with just the office 2003 source files that everyone can access, and update the .mst file to point to those shares..