Forcing Live Mesh on Windows Server: it works!

re: Forcing Live Mesh on Windows Server: it works!

donavon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:15:31 GMT

Kip,

This approach will NOT work on Windows Home Server. The files on d:\shares may not be actual files. In systems with more than one drive, files on d:\shares are likely tombstones (4k files that represent files stores on other drives). The only way to read/write to the shared folders on WHS is via the file shares which uses the Driver Extender. Because Live Mesh does not work on UNC folders, this eliminates it as a WHS solution, even though you can get it to run with the hack you mentioned.

To read all about tombstones, see the white paper on Drive Extender at download.microsoft.com/.../Windows_Home_Server_Drive_Extender.pdf

re: Forcing Live Mesh on Windows Server: it works!

sebif79 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:01:31 GMT

You don't need to disable UAC. Open a cmd, type runas /user:machine\Adminuser "installer.exe /force" and you got it.

Eventuelly you must create the Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\

Windows\Installer\DisableMSI and set DWORD:0x00

re: Forcing Live Mesh on Windows Server: it works!

foaf — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:59:57 GMT

My mistake, it works fine if you use the x86 software for the WHS (I forgot my mesh for Vista was x64)

re: Forcing Live Mesh on Windows Server: it works!

foaf — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:37:40 GMT

Tried this, but I get the message ""The image file C:\LiveMesh.exe is valid, but is for a machine type other than the current machine". I'm running WHS Power Pack 1.

Thanks for the heads up, would be great if it worked.

re: Forcing Live Mesh on Windows Server: it works!

JohnCz — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:05:43 GMT

I can imagine that something like this will be more tightly integrated with WHS once Live Mesh v1 is released. I'm looking for WHS Console and Connector software to eventually add more contextual menu support for Live Mesh.

re: Forcing Live Mesh on Windows Server: it works!

revanmj — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:53:34 GMT

does it force install Mesh on non-engilsh OS ?