-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Does anyone have a good suggestion for patching XP clients on a Samba PDC domain? I've tried using autoit and sysinternal's psexec to write a script to do this but this doesn't work well because the computer has to be active and our machines lock the machine if it's not active in 15 minutes. I hate having to log onto every machine every time another ms patch is released. Any suggestions or thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. - -- Glen Smith Technology Development & Administration D. Miller & Associates P.L.L.C. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDzaEJ/sRktXv59fkRAoMDAKC8faxJlj+RLdUm5eKUR+89l+e7OQCglXaG 6BDb9GeE/v1i3qa26FgZAKc=RSdb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Glen Smith schrieb:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > Does anyone have a good suggestion for patching XP clients on a Samba > PDC domain? I've tried using autoit and sysinternal's psexec to write > a script to do this but this doesn't work well because the computer > has to be active and our machines lock the machine if it's not active > in 15 minutes. > > I hate having to log onto every machine every time another ms patch is > released. Any suggestions or thoughts on the matter would be > greatly appreciated.Just enable automatic Windows-updates. Or if you don't want to do this or can't, use WPKG - http://wpkg.org -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
Hi, so you wanna have a internal windows update server? This is called sus or now wus, the pack can be free downloaded at ms. Normally you need iis on a win server running this. But the sus pack can be modified and will installed and run on a win2000/xp workstation, giving the win clients a entry in .pol pointing to it. Configure sus to look for downloads every day. the sus server must stay alive most time , this would work with a vmware or bochs setup too. This is the normal windows way for updates. There are other more linux related project that will do equal, like unattend, or wkpg in sourceforge.( which will deploy other software too.) you can find some wget batch scripts at the german magazine ct, or in the wild that should do jobs like patching too. ( but they need to be modified every time a new update comes up ) There is a way that configure a squid proxy so that updates stay in the cache if one client machine has fetched it. i would preffer using iis and sus on linux with wine, but i didnt find any doku that says iis with wine is possible..... in the near future xen should be able to setup a win machine on a linux host which i would prefer to vmware ( payware ). At last the whole update procedure for windows is terrible in comparing it with linux stuff like you apt yum Best Regards -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer robert_at_schetterer_dot_org Munich / Bavaria / Germany https://www.schetterer.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Does anyone have a good suggestion for patching XP clients on a Samba PDC domain? I've tried using autoit and sysinternal's psexec to write a script to do this but this doesn't work well because the computer has to be active and our machines lock the machine if it's not active in 15 minutes. I hate having to log onto every machine every time another ms patch is released. Any suggestions or thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. - -- Glen Smith Technology Development & Administration D. Miller & Associates P.L.L.C. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDzaEJ/sRktXv59fkRAoMDAKC8faxJlj+RLdUm5eKUR+89l+e7OQCglXaG 6BDb9GeE/v1i3qa26FgZAKc=RSdb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Hello, Robert, Stefan writing ;-) Robert Schetterer schrieb:> Hi, > so you wanna have a internal windows update server?Yep.> This is called sus or now wus, the pack can be free downloaded at ms. > Normally you need iis on a win server running this. > But the sus pack can be modified and will installed and run on a > win2000/xp workstation, giving the win clients a entry in .pol pointing > to it.I need a solution for a customer without any win server so I would be happy to get pointed to that other solution ...> There is a way that configure a squid proxy so that updates stay in the > cache if one client machine has fetched it.Also very interesting to me, the client has Squid running already. Does simply adjusting the maximum object sizes do the trick?> At last the whole update procedure for windows is terrible in comparing > it with linux stuff like you apt yumamen. Gr?sse, Stefan (G. Weichinger)