Win32: HtmlHelp doesn't work from a network share. What's the alternative?

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  •  22-09-2019
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Question

Since 2005, when Microsoft prevented HtmlHelp functioning off a network share, e.g.:

\\appserver\tos\PointScanner.exe
\\appserver\tos\PointScanner.chm

What are we supposed to do instead?

(Given that the application is not installed locally.)

To rephrase: What is Microsoft's intended, supported, out-of-the-box, help solution?

Was it helpful?

Solution

You can allow access via the Registry setting described here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054/

If you don't want to open any security vulnerabilities by modifying Registry settings your application could also create a local copy of the .chm file, e.g. in the users temp folder (%TMP%) and open the help from there. You can remove the file again when your application exits (in case you don't want to leave anything behind on the user's workstation)

OTHER TIPS

I started with the registry change mentioned by divo. Eventually I moved from network folder based chm files to actual "html help". This was easy for me since I use RoboHelp which can generate either format from the same source code.

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