samba - Sep 2005 - Can Samba be used to push out updates and hotfixes to client PC's

I have the Official Samba 3 and Samba-3 by example books, although not 
the second edition copies.  But I can't seem to find out how to push out 
patches and hotfixes with Samba.  Is this not possible at this time?

I don't have a lot of experience with Windows but I am going to have to 
deal with this issue soon.

I think I understand that pushing out policies is possible.

Is Microsoft designing its OS intentionally to subvert what Samba can do?

Thanks

Doug P

Hi! What exactly are you trying to do?

I've set up a update system with samba fileshares that works  
flawlessly but I only use the samba shares as repositories.

Can you give me a little more info.

//Henrik

28 sep 2005 kl. 23.00 skrev Douglas Phillipson:

> I have the Official Samba 3 and Samba-3 by example books, although  
> not the second edition copies.  But I can't seem to find out how to  
> push out patches and hotfixes with Samba.  Is this not possible at  
> this time?
>
> I don't have a lot of experience with Windows but I am going to  
> have to deal with this issue soon.
>
> I think I understand that pushing out policies is possible.
>
> Is Microsoft designing its OS intentionally to subvert what Samba  
> can do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P
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Douglas Phillipson schrieb:

 > I have the Official Samba 3 and Samba-3 by example books, although 
not the second edition copies.  But I can't seem to find out how to push 
out patches and hotfixes with Samba.  Is this not possible at this time?
 >
 > I don't have a lot of experience with Windows but I am going to have 
to deal with this issue soon.


For Windows patches and hotfixes I'd use Windowsupdate - then they will 
be downloaded and installed automatically.

If you wan't to update some other programs (like Adobe, Firefox, 
Thunderbird etc.), you can use WPKG - http://wpkg.org (you can use it 
for Windows updates/hotfixes, too).

With that tool you can "push" updates, patches, install, uninstall and
upgrade software, set printers, execute scripts (with Administrator or 
SYSTEM privileges; don't confuse with netlogon scripts, which are 
executed with user permissions), change permissions etc. to/on single 
hosts or to a group of hosts.


-- 
Tomek