Error when starting xlobby2 from network drive

[Homey]

Hello,

I am trying to set up a diskless [noiseless] client where I would like all of the applications, including xlobby2, to run from a mapped network drive. In this case the "local disk" is a compressed RamDisk image file that is downloaded via PXE from the BOOTP server at start up. I need to keep the size of this compressed file as small as possible for obvious reasons.

However, I get a fatal error when starting xlobby2.exe from a mapped drive even on systems that have a disk. It appears that this program will only start from a local disk. Perhaps it is a .NET application issue?

If I do need to start this application from the local disk, is there a way to set a path for the other startup files [skins] so that they can be placed in remote storage?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

[lar282]

sometimes u get that error when u have a link that does not have the startup directory set on the link itself.


//Lasse

[Homey]

Thanks for your quick reply!

I created a shortcut based on your suggestion and I can now relocate all of the folders [skins] in the install directory onto a network drive.

However, I still cannot relocate the xlobby2.exe executable because it fails to "link" with the "XPluginSDK" DLL on a network drive. Some of the other DLLs in this directory have similar problems linking, but do not cause the error.

This change reduces the total size of the install for the local drive to under 2 MB, which is not too bad...

[lar282]

check that u have the latest dsk dll file and check for multiples. I think its suppose to be in the same dir as xlobby2.exe

[Homey]

I'm not sure what you mean by the dsk DLL? I download and unzipped:
[url]http://www.xlobby.com/xlobby2prerelease1.zip[/url]

And then overlayed:
[url]http://www.xlobby.com/xlobby2.zip[/url]

I am using the .NET framework 1.1 with SP1, but I also tried it without the SP. I then collected the following information from Visual Studio .NET:
'xlobby2.exe': Loaded 'c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dll',
''xlobby2.exe': Loaded 'R:\XLobby\xlobby2.exe',
An unhandled exception of type 'System.Security.SecurityException' occurred in xlobby2.exe

[Homey]

I got it to work. The problem is that the .NET framework needs to establish a "Trust Relationship" with the server that hosts network drive. Use this Microsoft article to create the solution:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320268