Terminal Services and Installshield problem

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Viz

Our install.msi file calls a dll we've written to create a
user account. However, our install no longer works when
being run via Terminal Services. I'm installing onto a
Windows 2000 machine from Windows XP. I've run both the
Terminal Services client and the Remote Console built into
XP.

The error box I get when it fails is (title and message):

InstallShield DLL Custom Action

Unknown source ".

If I remove the call to the dll, it works fine. If I run
it on the remote machine locally (not via Terminal
Services), the dll call and the install run fine. After
searching the web for this rather interesting error code,
I found that 2 different companies had also encountered
this problem and noted that if the install is run silently
(msiexec /q) that it works. I verified that that is the
case for us as well; installing silently works.

Can you give me more insight as to why this is happening?

Thanks,

Viz
 
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