I'm trying to distribute a couple InstallShield EXE with the silent switch via SMS. The problem is, though the app appears to install according to SMS, nothing happens. No files or folders are created on the client.

Even stranger is if I push the same EXE without the switches (basically, so I can run in manually), the installation initializes properly.

Here's my commandline in SMS:

Setup.exe /s

The setup.iss file is in the same folder as setup.exe. If I run setup.exe /s manually, it installs properly. It's only when it is installed via SMS that I experience the problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

eric

What program are you trying to push?

What Installshield version is it?

Is everything wrapped into a single exe or is everything in a folder?

Are you pushing this from read only media ( a cd for example)? If so, did you specify a path for a logfile to be created?

Also, post your setup.iss and highlight any changes you made to it by hand.

I actually figured it out over the weekend...

Bascially, I had to redirect where the logfile would be written because by default, setup.exe was trying to write back to the SMSPKGC$ share, which it can't because of security.

So I just used the following line in my SMS program and it worked fine:

setup.exe /s /f2c:\logfile.log

thanks for all your help!