Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:46:19 -0800 | From | "Dan Kegel" <> | Subject | Re: Relax permissions for reading hard drive serial number? |
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On Nov 29, 2007 7:37 AM, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote: > > One sticking point is that apps like Photoshop and probably > > Punkbuster want to retrieve the hard drive's serial number > > So they can't be installed on a network drive ?
I think Adobe supports that, though perhaps not with the retail version. Big companies with network drives are probably an important revenue source for them.
I haven't looked closely at what happens when you try installing onto network drives. If you are really interested, it's pretty easy to try yourself; just run the app under wine with WINEDEBUG=+cdrom,+disk and look in the log for calls like CreateFile("\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0", ...). There's some chance the code always checks drive 0 instead of the drive you're installing onto. - Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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