Yes, I know Vista isn't supported _yet_. I thought I'd try to see if I can get some community help making this work, otherwise I have to revert to SortaSafe.

I'm running Windows Vista (Ultimate) RTM, with IIS7.0 and SQL Server Express. When I try to install Vault Server (3.5.1) is immediately pops an error saying "Error 1606. Could not access network location %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot"

I'm installing with elevated permissions, so it's not an administrator-permission thing. In addition, %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot is indeed a valid location.

Has anybody had success getting it to install? Any special tricks need to be done?

We don't fully support Vista yet, as we are still in the process of testing it with Vault. The Vault 3.5.x client appears to work on Vista.

We'll try to reproduce your environment and see if we run into the same problems when installing a Vault Server and SQL Express 2005 on Vista.

I was getting the exact same problem but i managed to fix this by adjusting some keys in the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp\Path <- Change from "%SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot" to "c:\inetpub\wwwroot"

And do the same again to the following key if you are using the 64bit version

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\InetStp\PathWWWRoot

That didn't do it. What's the deal here? This seems to be a major issue.

Sorry, Vault isn't supported on Vista yet. We know there are issues and we're currently testing Vault client and Vault Server on Vista.

We also don't support Vault on a 64-bit OS.

We do plan to support both of these, but it won't be until early next year. We not only have to test Vault on a specfic OS, but test all interactions with Vault clients on different OS's, .NET Framework versions, etc.

Boba,
Changing that value to c:\inetpub\wwwroot got me past that error. Thanks for posting.

Vault 3.5.2 is currently in Preview. This release supports both 64-bit operating systems and Windows Vista.

If you would like to try our preview, please e-mail vaultbeta at SourceGear.com