HELP - Application Installed Incorrectly Error

[zincb]

Am trying to install a 10 seat Filemaker 7 volume license on a Windows 2003 server, for use by Windows 2000 clients. The server is running FMP server 5.5 for normal use & the FMP7 is for testing, as we migrate our solutions to FMP7.

The program runs fine, sitting at the server, but when I share the folder, even with FULL admin rights, I get "This application has been installed incorrectly or modified by another program. Please run the Installer to get a fresh copy of the application after determing the cause."

I uninstalled, tried installing to the default C:Program Files directory, tried the v3 update, rebooted the server, stopped FMP server 5.5 services, but nothing seems to work.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

[Wim Decorte]

Not sure what you're trying to do ...

Unless you're installing for Terminal Services, each client needs to have their own copy of FM Pro installed on their machine.

If you are installing for TS or Citrix, install one copy (but with a VLA license code) on the TS server. No need to share the folder.

If you're copying the FMP setup files to a network folder so that you can install it on each workstation without needing the setup CD, then you don't need to install on the server, just copy the CD contents over.

I wouldn't install FM7 on the same machine that runs your FMS 5.5. In fact I wouldn't install anything but FMS on the FMS box. Why risk interrupting the ongoing operations when something happens in FM7?

[zincb]

By installing the VLA on the server and sharing the directory, there is no need to go to each PC and install Filemaker, and then install all the patches. We work in in several secure (every door is locked) buildings in different parts of the city. Everyone uses the same shared Filemaker executable, up to the VLA limit.

Although we could get away with a shortcut to the Filemaker Application, without a shared folder, our users have a habit of deleting their shortcut when they clean their desktop. They can then go to the shared drive and copy a new shortcut, all by themselves.

Both are on the same server due to funding constraints. We hope to dump the FMP5 apps & files in the next 3 months.

The believe-it-or-not solution to this installation problem appears to be installing Filemaker 7 on the server, in the shared directory, from one of our remote clients! We are now installing the v3 update and hope it still works, when through.

Bayern, eh? I grew up in Obergiesing! It's a small world. Hab'd'Ehre!

[zincb]

WRONG WRONG WRONG

Wim Decorte has it right; you either need to install everything on each client PC or you need to run something called Terminal Services, which is a Microsoft product.

It worked so nicely in FMP5, why'd they have to go and break it?