deploying teststandV3 - dcom98 error on target

[Rash]

Thank you in advance.

I have two PXI computer that I'll like to deploy sequence file to, from a development machine, I have successfully create the installer using tool>>deploy test stand system but I get error message "dcom98" required when I attempt to install it to win98 target machine. I have been to the windows website to download and install "dcom98.exe" but I still get the error.


I have read some literature on this issue but got no where. Out of curiosity what is the different between "disturbing test stand" and "deploying test stand". anyone?"

[Rick_Francis]

Rash,

There is a bug with 3.0 deployment installers that prevents it from correctly detecting if dcom has been installed. I have attached a version of the installer template that does not check for DCOM. You should first rename TestStand\Components\NI\Tools\Deployment Utility\distkit\redist\DKTemplateEN.msi then copying the attached "DKTemplateEN.msi" into TestStand\Components\NI\Tools\Deployment Utility\distkit\redist and rebuild the installer.

Note that you will still need to install DCOM98 on your windows 98 systems and the installer will not complain if DCOM is not present.

-Rick Francis

[RayFarmer]

Hi Rick,

I tried this file but I'm getting an Internal Error 2705. So the deployment fails.

I am trying to deploy on a win98SE system.

Any clues

Regards
Ray Farmer

[Russell_G.]

Hi Ray

Is there any other information that goes along with this error code? This may help point us in the right direction to help solve your problem.

Russell G.
NI Applications Engineering

[RayFarmer]

Hi Russell,

There was very little information. I'll capture the Dialog boxes that reported the error and post them later today.

Regards
Ray Farmer

[AllenP]

Ray,

Do you have DCOM installed on Win98? The installer is not checking for it, but you still will need to have it installed.

Here is a link to it:

Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) for Windows 98 v1.3

[RayFarmer]

Yeah, I was getting the same problems as Rash.

I did a search, and come with this thread. So I tried the file you that was attached.

Its strange, seeing as the PC I was trying to deploy onto, did have TestStand V2.01f1, LabVIEW 6.1 etc until a few months ago, when I had to refresh the drive.

I downloaded the DCOM, then tried to install my build but it keep telling me to install DCOM first.


I'll get same screen shots of the other error dialogs I am getting.

Regards
Ray Farmer

[RayFarmer]

attached is the error I am seeing. Its the same error whether run on the XP system as seen from the jpgs on or the win98se system.

Regards
Ray.

Message Edited by Ray Farmer on 05-13-2005 10:01 PM

[Rick_Francis]

Ray,

The error hints at a directory entry that is expected but missing. To find out exactly what is happening try making a log of the install. Run the installer with the following command:

setup.exe /l*v c:\installer.log

The log file will be large so just attach it to the post.

-Rick Francis

[RayFarmer]

Hope you can make sense of this.


Ray.