Repo Access Required for Deadline 10 Installation

Deadline
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I don’t know if this is a regression or not but when installing D10 Client you can’t elevate the path to the repository. We run as an elevated service which can see the repository but the user account is not elevated. As a result the installer gives an error that the “Repository path doesn’t exist” because it can’t see it when installing.

It should blindly proceed optionally and then worry about repo pathing later when it tries to launch.

2

Yeah, I’ve considered that for awhile. I’ll see if I can dig up my issue for that one.

The issue is that when running an installer with UAC permissions, the admin account can’t see any mapped drives. I usually just give it some dummy folder that exists, then change it later.

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Are “Dummy folders” still necessary to install or does the new service pack fix this?