Re: [Unattended] auto logon local when in a domain?

2004-08-06 Thread Steven Piercy
ok... - here is the trick... winderzXP wants to log to domain by def when joined to one... so setting the autologon reg key for local account jimmies it all up! but i dont want 300 times the domain admin logon traffic while deploying! is the best idea to join domain last? ah... and I bet

Re: [Unattended] auto logon local when in a domain?

2004-08-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
As I have mentioned, I and others use Unattended when joining a domain. Automatic logon to the local administrator account works just fine. In short, I have no idea what you are talking about. True, automatic logon will not work if you encrypt the administrator password. See the documentation

[Unattended] Unattended 4.4 released

2004-08-06 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Bunch of small fixes, one major fix (Linux boot disk on Compaq hardware), a few minor improvements, and filling in the international download URLs (courtesy Niels Richthof). With XP SP2 and Linux 2.6.8 imminent, we will probably have another release within a month or so. But I think we have

[Unattended] pxe

2004-08-06 Thread Sean Branam
Im trying to setup unattend and have had a few obstacles. OneI couldnt figure out why the pxe wouldnt load the driver files and I realized that under the tftpd dir , its looking for a dir named unattended and the .imz files there. Now I have another problem. My Gateway systems have

[Unattended] Updating Machines Built w/ Unattended...

2004-08-06 Thread Michael Kahle
I am still on version 3.4 of unattended... still works great! :) I am going to be doing an upgrade to the new release... 4.4 I think? Anyway, just had I thought I would like to share. What if, instead of querying a few text files under NETINST on the built machine for software to install and

[Unattended] PnP Drivers require manual install?

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Heslep
Using UA 4.3 linux boot with ethernet and video drivers not stock in my Dell OEM XP distro. I placed the drivers in $oem$/$1 and they are correctly discovered by the config.pl PnP collector, specified in unattend.txt and copied to the C:/Drivers folder but they do not get _automatically_

Re: [Unattended] PnP Drivers require manual install?

2004-08-06 Thread Michael Styne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark, On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Mark Heslep wrote: Any hints as to whats stopping driver installation via Unattended? From my experience, you want to keep your directory names to less than 8 characters. So try drivers\video\firegl and

RE: [Unattended] PnP Drivers require manual install?

2004-08-06 Thread Donofrio, Lewis
Mark, Normally this is from a buggie *.inf file that inhibits the unattenedness we needcheck for a newer unattened inf file --Really...at least that's how I know things, but after all I know less and less each day, good luck.

Re: [Unattended] PnP Drivers require manual install?

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Heslep
Michael Styne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark, On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Mark Heslep wrote: Any hints as to whats stopping driver installation via Unattended? From my experience, you want to keep your directory names to less than 8 characters. So try