| Subject: Unable to install .msi packages, error 1325 |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 7/2/2008 9:49:03 AM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?andpZ2ludG9u?= [Email Address Protection] |
When trying to install any .msi package on Vista Business SP1 I get an error 1325<username> is not a valid short filename. This only happens with my domain user account which is 9 characters long. This does not happen when logged in locally or with my domain admin account. It is specific to Vista, though. On my XP laptop it's fine. I can install whatever I want. I'm the admin at this site so my user acct has admin rights to all the clients on my network. I'm trying to test Vista just to get a good feel for it in case the folks at my corporate office get a wild hair and decide to start rolling it out. It's just odd that it's only on the Vista machine that I'm trying to set up and not on any of my XP machines and that it's only .msi installer packages regardless of who assembled it. |
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| Subject: Re: Unable to install .msi packages, error 1325 |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 7/2/2008 10:04:04 AM |
| From: "Mark H" [Email Address Protection] |
Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/ Be sure to read the article first. I don't want you to lose something important. "jwiginton" <jwiginton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3D493AD4-CD42-434F-8519-BCE32B43C0B6@microsoft.com... > When trying to install any .msi package on Vista Business SP1 I get an error > 1325<username> is not a valid short filename. This only happens with my > domain user account which is 9 characters long. This does not happen when > logged in locally or with my domain admin account. It is specific to Vista, > though. On my XP laptop it's fine. I can install whatever I want. I'm the > admin at this site so my user acct has admin rights to all the clients on my > network. I'm trying to test Vista just to get a good feel for it in case the > folks at my corporate office get a wild hair and decide to start rolling it > out. > > It's just odd that it's only on the Vista machine that I'm trying to set up > and not on any of my XP machines and that it's only .msi installer packages > regardless of who assembled it. |
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