So I have looked through the list archives on automating windows installs,
and the only one I found was written back in 2006 with NSIS. I have spent
the good portion of 2 days going through the bacula source with NSIS
compiler, and after close to 3000 lines of code in at least 3 files, Im
baffled. Surely there is an easier way to automate installs than to create
an NSIS file from scratch.
I have also tried bacula-3.0.1.exe /Silent For a silent install, and it
does work, but the config files are @computer_name@ instead of the actual
computer name displayed during a manual install of the software. Besides
having to write a WMI script to grab the computer name, and a SED script to
modify the config file after a /Silent install, what are my options?
Here's what we have:
150+ clients nationwide all running windows XP, clients are connected via
VPN. The goal from the Windows Admins was for me to compile a
bacula-client.MSI file so that it could be pushed out via group-policy from
the AD server. Creating an MSI isn't too difficult, but the config files
wouldn't be modified properly.
Now I was able to physically modify the config file for the director name,
address and password, and it did a silent install with that information,
just not with the client's information.
Doing a custom install for just a client install (manually) actually plugs
in the clientname-fd by default, which is really nice.
Any options? I'm thinking that it might just be easier to remote to each of
the 150 machines and manually install the windows client. But would love to
get some feedback from other people that have pushed out 100+ client
installs.
~Jayson
Jayson Broughton
Linux Systems Administrator
True Oil LLC
jbrough...@truecos.com
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