[Unattended] install.pl, OemPnPDriversPath

2004-03-03 Thread Sven Geipel
Hello, is it possible to sort found directories when install.pl searches for OemPnPDriversPath? I have many dirs in $OEM$\$1 and the unsorted display is confusing. Thanks Sven smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[Unattended] samba registration key

2004-03-03 Thread Klaus Vink Slott
Hello After install, but before first logon I would like to add a key to windows registry allowing XP users to log on to a samba domain. During boot I added the following line to postinst.bat "regedit /s z:\os\samba.reg" but when the PC completes install after last boot it pops up box claming t

[Unattended] install.pl, OemPnPDriversPath

2004-03-03 Thread Sven Geipel
Hello, is it possible to sort found directories when searching the OemPnPDriversPath? I have a lot of harware drivers there and install.pl shows found driver dirs unsorted. This is a little bit confusing. Thanks, Sven --- SF.Net is sponsore

Re: [Unattended] Product Keys from Spreadsheet

2004-03-03 Thread Michel . Timmerman
Thanks alot for the spreadsheet stuff, this really works great. You say you have a field (column :) in the spreadsheet that has the type of OS in it e.g. Windows 2000 Professional or ...XP. Is it possible to compute the installfolder from this point. I mean now when install.pl runs, it first se

RE: [Unattended] samba registration key

2004-03-03 Thread Max Lovius
I think the recommended way is to make a bat or any other script and add it to the todo list. http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.html Straigt from that page : The todo.pl driver script One script to rule them all One master Perl script, todo.pl, oversees the entire installation process. All of

[Unattended] Linux and samba issues.

2004-03-03 Thread Felipe Navarrete
I have set up a Linux box running samba with unattended 3.5. When I initially copied the files to the server I used pscp. For some reason the files got corrupted. I ended up giving a my user write privilages on the share and just dragging and dropping them onto to server. That worked fine. Why

Re: [Unattended] Linux and samba issues.

2004-03-03 Thread Brian Mathis
pscp works very well for many users, otherwise you'd see large warnings about it all over the net and no one would be using it. There is probably something else going on there, I doubt it's pscp. If you can tell how they are corrupted, that would help. Maybe binary files were transferred as

Re: [Unattended] Linux and samba issues.

2004-03-03 Thread Martin Buckley
Agreed - the putty set of tools are extremely robust; what sort of corruption did you see? Martin Buckley[EMAIL PROTECTED] Evil ZEN Scientist[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ximian.com/products/redcarpet_enterprise http://www.novell.com/zenworks http://www.novell.com/cool

[Unattended] wish list

2004-03-03 Thread Adam Peart
Just a little thing that I wish could be added. In the reboot the computer script, there is a count down, but I also wish there was a cancel button in the box in case you don't want to restart yet. I know the whole idea of unattend is to walk away, but if you're there and you find you need to

RE: [Unattended] wish list

2004-03-03 Thread James Barlow
A poor-man's version of this is to: 1) Stick a copy of shutdown.exe from the resource kit into the z:\bin directory. 2) Create a batch file "z:\bin\abort.bat" containing the following line z:\bin\shutdown /A 3)Add the following to your build script: Todo.pl "shortcut.pl z:\bin\abo

[Unattended] speaking of wish lists

2004-03-03 Thread Jordan Share
I've been meaning to experiment with this, but it'd be super-nice if the install.pl script were able to output to the serial port instead of/as well as the console. We have a bunch of machines hooked up to serial concentrators, and it'd be nice to be able to /fully/ automatedly install them. :)

Re: [Unattended] Linux and samba issues.

2004-03-03 Thread Felipe Navarrete
Basically what I happened is I did a: pscp -r os [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/unattended/install/ When I went to do an unattended install I would get errors. The only error I remember was that a file was missing. I dont remember the name of the file. when I cut and pasted the os directory to the server(th