Hi guys I was just wondering if there's already a way to automate the process of updating Windows to be specific XP. My idea is to mimic how a Windows server domain controller can rollout critical update on the entire domain. Can Samba do this? Thanks for any info Jan Ardosa --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,> Hi guys I was just wondering if there's already a way to automate the > process of updating Windows to be specific XP. My idea is to mimic how a > Windows server domain controller can rollout critical update on the entire > domain. Can Samba do this? Thanks for any infoWhat you want is a SUS, Software Update Service. You can get it for free from M$. Then all you have to do is tell the clients to poll your sus server frequently. This can be done in many serveral ways: - - by a group policy (up to now only with a Windows domain controller, which is probably what you are referring to) - - by hand (just importing a small registry snippet) - - by some sort of script doing point 2. - - ... This really has not very much to do with samba. Christopher - -- ===================================================== Dipl.-Ing. Christopher Odenbach Zentrum IT-Dienste N5.110 odenbach@uni-paderborn.de Tel.: +49 5251 60 5315 =====================================================-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBU9z0hxiCJKeLY0IRAs26AJ0TzOOvZXvrPTZf2Ixf0ImkhITZMwCfT5U7 VaS6rFrdjgkLb6GHHliAdyM=xgwy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
hi there are many ways to do a windows update, using a win workstation with a special designed install pack of sus server which can be free downloaded at ms and setting policies to use it is one way which works very well and is free of costs. Other possibilies is seen is a dos script from the german magazin ct which does it quite well, and simular i ve seen as perl script. But having a susserver is quite the best way, samba is a file server , windows update is more like a webserver funktion, its thinkable to store updates on samba , but you need to have the checking mechanism , which update should be done, so the best way is to use the win implemented service features. fo more info look http://www.susserver.com/ Regards jan ardosa schrieb:> Hi guys I was just wondering if there's already a way to automate the process of updating Windows to be specific XP. My idea is to mimic how a Windows server domain controller can rollout critical update on the entire domain. Can Samba do this? Thanks for any info > > Jan Ardosa > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
here are a couple of links that you might find interesting: http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/NT-Bugtraq/2003-12/0079.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/wpkg/ stuart ----- Original Message ----- From: "jan ardosa" <lance_devera@yahoo.com> To: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:59 PM Subject: [Samba] Automating Windows Update Hi guys I was just wondering if there's already a way to automate the process of updating Windows to be specific XP. My idea is to mimic how a Windows server domain controller can rollout critical update on the entire domain. Can Samba do this? Thanks for any info Jan Ardosa --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba