Share Creation Missing / Error Message wrong config file

Continua CI Discussion
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I selected the option to install and had it create a new share.

I browsed to the web server and found this message:

The server's data share path cannot be found, or is not local to the server. An administrator can fix this by editing the value of Continua.Builds.DataSharePath in Continua.Service.exe.config 

Looking it did not create the share (I will create it and move on)

I also noticed that the Error Message has the config file name incorrect it's, I found that entry in:

Continua.Server.Service.exe.config

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Also once you get this error message: 

The server's data share path cannot be found, or is not local to the server. An administrator can fix this by editing the value of Continua.Builds.DataSharePath in Continua.Service.exe.config 

I found myself pressing refresh over and over.   Restarting IIS and the Continua services.   Then I noticed the URL had changed and I was just refreshing the error message page.    It seems that once the error is fixed and a user refreshes the page it should take them back to the original page and continue on.

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Hi Robert,

What version of Windows do you have installed? I just tested the installer here on Windows 7 and it appears to create the share fine, though it did create it with the wrong permissions (needs to be read/write). We’ll hopefully get this resolved today, thanks for reporting it.

Regards,
Paul.

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After a bit more testing, it turns out we weren’t quoting correctly when calling NET SHARE to create the share, did you by any chance have spaces in the share name created during the installer?

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I am using Windows 7.   I did not have a space the name was "build".

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Two items:


1. spaces in share names are bad.

2. The refresh on the error page is similar behavior as to what you see in FBS.

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As another observation regarding the share, granting ‘Full Control’ is actually probably completely unnecessary. As a general rule I don’t want non-administrative users to have the ability to change/set permissions on files and folders. This is because, in my experience, they typically will screw things up in a most spectacular way.