C / C++ / MFC

17-Feb-10 23:54

Hi All,

I am trying to install the .inf file through cmd line

rundll32 syssetup,SetupInfObjectInstallAction DefaultInstall 128 .\mfile.inf

It runs fine with wondows xp and windows 7 but in windows vista I am getting error message "Installation failed".

Even UAC also disabled. What might be the problem?

Richard MacCutchan18-Feb-10 0:18

18-Feb-10 0:18

john5632 wrote:
What might be the problem?

Same as this[^].

txtspeak is the realm of 9 year old children, not developers. Christian Graus

john563218-Feb-10 0:20

18-Feb-10 0:20

Yes, then what to do?

Richard MacCutchan18-Feb-10 0:22

18-Feb-10 0:22

Provide some more information, your message gives us nothing to work with.

txtspeak is the realm of 9 year old children, not developers. Christian Graus

john563218-Feb-10 1:35

18-Feb-10 1:35

I have only inf file and want to install.
What information you want?

Richard MacCutchan18-Feb-10 1:53

18-Feb-10 1:53

What are you trying to install? Perhaps if you post the contents of your inf file that might be a starting point.

txtspeak is the realm of 9 year old children, not developers. Christian Graus

john563218-Feb-10 2:01

18-Feb-10 2:01

ok, trying to install kQemu driver through .inf file

Code:--

; Copyright (C) 2005 Filip Navara, Damien Mascord

[Version]
Signature   = "$Windows NT$"
Class       = System
ClassGuid   = {4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Provider    = %Author%
DriverVer   = 04/28/2005,1.0

[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir    = 12
KQemu.DriverFiles = 12
KQemu.InfFiles    = 10,inf

[SourceDisksNames]
1 = %InstDisk%
   
[SourceDisksFiles]
kqemu.sys = 1

[Manufacturer]
%Author% = KQemu.Manufacturer

[KQemu.Manufacturer]
%Description% = DefaultInstall,kqemu

[DefaultInstall.NT]
CopyFiles = KQemu.DriverFiles, KQemu.InfFiles
AddReg = KQemu.UninstallRegistry

[DefaultInstall.NT.Services]
AddService = kqemu,,KQemuService_Inst

[Uninstall.NT]
DelFiles = KQemu.DriverFiles, KQemu.InfFiles
DelReg = KQemu.UninstallRegistry

[Uninstall.NT.Services]
DelService = kqemu,0x00000200

[KQemu.DriverFiles]
kqemu.sys

[KQemu.InfFiles]
kqemu.inf

[KQemu.UninstallRegistry]
HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\KQEMU,"DisplayName",,%Description%
HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\KQEMU,"UninstallString",0x20000,"RunDll32 setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection Uninstall 132 %SystemRoot%\inf\kqemu.inf"

[KQemuService_Inst]
DisplayName   = %Description%
ServiceType   = %SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER%
StartType     = %SERVICE_DEMAND_START%
ErrorControl  = %SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL%
ServiceBinary = %12%\kqemu.sys

[Strings]
Author = "Fabrice Bellard"
Description = "KQEMU virtualisation module for QEMU"
InstDisk = "KQEMU Install Disk"
SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER = 1
SERVICE_DEMAND_START = 3
SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL = 1

Richard MacCutchan18-Feb-10 6:08

18-Feb-10 6:08

I see that this file contains the name of the author and the company that manufactured this product. Obviously they are the people to contact to ask what this message means.

txtspeak is the realm of 9 year old children, not developers. Christian Graus

john563218-Feb-10 20:06

18-Feb-10 20:06

If I could do that then no need of your help

Richard MacCutchan18-Feb-10 22:03

18-Feb-10 22:03

As I said in answer to your earlier post, the message "Installation failed" gives no clue as to what might be wrong, so there is no way we could begin to guess what the error is. If you cannot get help from the people who wrote this package then I fear you are stuck.

txtspeak is the realm of 9 year old children, not developers. Christian Graus

vasu_sri18-Feb-10 22:50

vasu_sri

18-Feb-10 22:50

john5632 wrote:
If I could do that then no need of your help

Oh Yeah? You must be happy for all the help you are getting here. You talk as if you are paying to get help from people here. Poke tongue | ;-P

David Crow19-Feb-10 4:36

David Crow

19-Feb-10 4:36

What's keeping you from contacting fabrice@bellard.org?

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krmed18-Feb-10 0:44

krmed

18-Feb-10 0:44

Perhaps you can start your console window as an administrator - it may help.

Browse to your \Windows\system32 folder, then right-click on cmd.exe and choose "Run As Administrator".

Hope it helps.

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john563218-Feb-10 1:35

18-Feb-10 1:35

Same Error Message

Testing File Access Rights in MFC [Not solved yet]

Randor 19-Feb-10 9:49

Randor

19-Feb-10 9:49

Hi,

When you install a device driver and the installation fails you can check the SetupAPI Log File[^] located at %windir%\inf\setupapi.dev.log on Windows Vista and above.

My guess is that you are attempting to install a 32 bit device driver on a 64 bit Vista OS.

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

staffan_v17-Feb-10 22:48

17-Feb-10 22:48

In a program I develop I need to find out if I can have write rights to a given file. Earlier I have used

// Get file attributes
dwAttributes = ::GetFileAttributes(sFileName);
if( dwAttributes != INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES )
{
    // If read-only
    if( dwAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY )
    {
        bReadOnly = true;
    }
}

CPallini17-Feb-10 23:24

CPallini

17-Feb-10 23:24

Your program should require elevation to gain access to such folder, see, for instance [^].
Smile | :)

staffan_v17-Feb-10 23:32

17-Feb-10 23:32

Did you answer to the right message? Your reply seem to have nothing to do with what I asked about.

Richard MacCutchan17-Feb-10 23:44

17-Feb-10 23:44

The issue is with User Access Control. If you wish to write to files in certain directories you need elevated access rights before you are allowed to do so. Did you read the link that Carlo gave you?

txtspeak is the realm of 9 year old children, not developers. Christian Graus

staffan_v17-Feb-10 23:50

17-Feb-10 23:50

Did you read the original question? I do not want to write files. I want to know if I can write files. i.e. I have a file name and want to be able to answer the question "Can I write to this file?".

I'm looking into using GetNamedSecurityInfo() and then GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl()

Richard MacCutchan18-Feb-10 0:17

Re: Testing File Access Rights in MFC [code]

18-Feb-10 0:17

You're correct, I misunderstood your original question.

txtspeak is the realm of 9 year old children, not developers. Christian Graus

staffan_v18-Feb-10 4:19

18-Feb-10 4:19

No problem.

I have found and used this code

bool sysAccessWrite(const LPWSTR path)
{
	DWORD result;
	SECURITY_INFORMATION secInfo = DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION;
	PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR secDesc;
	PACL dacl;
	TRUSTEE trustee;
	ACCESS_MASK rights;

	// Get the discretionary access control list.
	result = GetNamedSecurityInfo( path, SE_FILE_OBJECT, secInfo,
		NULL, NULL, &dacl, NULL, &secDesc );
	if( result != ERROR_SUCCESS )
	{
		// set errno = an appropriate error code
		return false;
	}

	// Determine the current user's access rights.
	trustee.pMultipleTrustee = NULL;
	trustee.MultipleTrusteeOperation = NO_MULTIPLE_TRUSTEE;
	trustee.TrusteeForm = TRUSTEE_IS_NAME;
	trustee.TrusteeType = TRUSTEE_IS_USER;
	trustee.ptstrName = _T("CURRENT_USER");
	result = GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl(dacl, &trustee, &rights);
	if( result != ERROR_SUCCESS )
	{
		// set errno = an appropriate error code
		return false;
	}

	// Free the security descriptor.
	(void) LocalFree(secDesc);

	// Return the result.
	return (rights & GENERIC_WRITE) ? true : false;
}

The problem is that it should work, but it don't. At least not when I try it under Windows 7. It gives 1F01FF (Full control) even if the program isn't capable of actually writing to the file.