Hi,
Yes, Windows User Account Control (UAC) opens a pop-up and requires admin credentials before installer is started. No other questions are asked after that. From the point of view of a first time Geoserver user I suppose that getting no shortcuts into start menu may feel like the installation was not successful despite Geoserver starts by running startup.bat from %GEOSERVER_HOME%\bin. I tried to find some information what should be done for NSIS if the scenario is “Start installer as %USER%, execute it as %ADMIN%, and create shortcuts into %USER%\STARTMENU. Something about that is for example in http://www.klopfenstein.net/lorenz.aspx/simple-nsis-installer-with-user-execution-level.
-Jukka Rahkonen-
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Chris Snider wrote:
Jukka,
When running this installer as “normal user”, does the installer ask you for permission execute the installer? Do you get any prompts from the installer about allowing the change?
Chris Snider
Senior Software Engineer
Intelligent Software Solutions, Inc.
From: Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) [mailto:jukka.rahkonen@anonymised.com]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 9:40 AM
To: Geoserver-devel
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Interesting discovery about windows installer
Hi,
This one makes a successful installation with default settings into Program Files (x86) on my home computer. It does not create shortcuts into start menu if installer is started as normal user. If I log in as admin and run installer then the shortcuts are created.
-Jukka-
Andrea Aime wrote:
Here is an updated installer based on conversations with Jukka:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2361103/geoserver-2.6-SNAPSHOT.exe
Cheers
Andrea
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