Excel: Installing onto a Network may Result in -50 error

• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, version 4.0

Summary:

When installing Excel 4.0 to an AppleShare, LAN Manager, Novell, or other network server using the second network install option (which allows users to run Microsoft Excel from the server), the setup may stop with a -50 error after it has finished copying all seven disks to the server. Upon receiving this error, the Excel Setup may then return an error -51. This error does not occur if using the first network install option (which allows users to install Microsoft Excel from the server) is used.

More Information:

To work around this problem when choosing the second network install option, follow these steps:

1. Insert "Disk 1-Setup" and run "Microsoft Excel Setup."

2. When the registration dialog box is presented, enter your name and organization, if it hasn't already been entered, and choose the OK button.

3. The setup will then ask what type of Excel installation you would like. Choose Network.

4. From the "Installing Microsoft Excel to a Network" dialog box, choose the second network install option, "Allow users to run Microsoft Excel from the server."

5. When asked to select a disk and a folder in which to install Excel, select a folder on your own hard drive.

6. When it is done installing to the folder on the hard drive, copy the folder to the server where you wanted to have Excel installed and then remove the copy that is on your own hard drive.