Issue with Click-once Deployment

Mc Combi

14y5.1k

My working environment:

Windows 7 Enterprise SP1, 64-bit OS, VisualStudio 2010 Premium.

My scenario:

I have a windows solution that needs to be published over a VPN to the "Live Server".

When I publish the solution to the "Test Server", it publishes fine, installs without problems, and the testers can do their stuff.

My problem:

When I publish to the "Live Server" over the VPN, the necessary files are copied over (the following files, where * represents the name of various classes, projects within my solution, etc: *.dll.deploy, the *.exe.manifest, the *.application, the *.exe.deploy) – 64 in total.

I have physically watched the copying process to verify that all the files are copied over.

The Publishing Folder Location and the Installation Folder URL are the same, as indicated on the Publish tab in the Properties of the Start-up project.

At the end of the copying, I get a VS error list with between 5-7 errors, and then a rollback starts that deletes those 64 files from the deployment location. Those errors ALWAYS include a combination of 9 specific files, and the files shown in the error list are not the same every time.

The error message:

"Failed to copy file '…filename…' to '…deployment location…' to the website. Unable to add file to '…deployment location…' The specified network name is no longer available."

While the copying took place, I pinged the "Live Server" with the –t tag to ensure that I can spot a drop in connectivity.

My request:

Is there anyone that can assist me, or point me in the right direction to sort out this problem? Is there something that I am overlooking? Any advice will be highly appreciated.

I am thinking of:

Since nothing changes between be publishing to the "Test Server" and the "Live Server" except for the deployment folder location, can I plainly copy the 64 files from the "Test Server" over to the "Live Server"?

Thanks in advance.

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Mc Combi14y ago
Hi Murali,

To answer your Qs:
1) No, only to the LIVE server do I use the VPN. For the test deploy a local network is used.
2) I am unsure, but will investigate the config on both servers.
3) I am unsure, and will also investigate this.
4) Shared network path

To answer your suggestions:
1) I have tried that, without success.
2) Yes, I have full rights

Any other suggestions?
14y ago
The reasons could be,

1) You might not have complete rights (read & write )on the destination folder. Sometimes, you may not be copy the dll/bin folders.

"Those errors ALWAYS include a combination of 9 specific files, and the files shown in the error list are not the same every time."
        The reason for this, when you're copying the files are one system to another, windows will create some temp files, once the copy progress is done, then it will displays the actual file name. That is the reason, always yor're getting different file names.

Questions:
             1) When you're publishing the files to Test server, is it with the same VPN connection or with out vpn connection?
             2) Test server and Live server has same configurations?
             3) In Live server, is there any anti-virus is blocking your copy process?
             4) Does the destination location in Live server is local hard drive or Shared / network path?

Suggestions:
        1) Run VS in Administrator mode and try to publish it.
        2) Full rights on the destination folder.
        3) Copying Test server to Live server is not recommended. Later, You might face the same issue with different    folder /version of the same application.