Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-07 Thread Clint Sharp
Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 22:43, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: SUS works surprisingly well, but I think you can just set a policy for the machines to update themselves automatically from the master site if you wish. Andrew Bartlett We're considering a SUS deployment.

RE: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-07 Thread Jeramy Eling
the deployment of an SUS server. Hope this helps Jez -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Clint Sharp Sent: 07 May 2004 08:29 To: Andrew Bartlett Cc: samba; Nicki Messerschmidt Subject: Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update? Andrew Bartlett

Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 17:28, Clint Sharp wrote: Andrew Bartlett wrote: We're considering a SUS deployment. What are you (or others on the list) doing to push the policy to tell the clients which SUS server to pull the updates from and when? From the Microsoft documentation I read, it

Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-07 Thread RRuegner
To: Andrew Bartlett Cc: samba; Nicki Messerschmidt Subject: Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update? Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 22:43, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: SUS works surprisingly well, but I think you can just set a policy for the machines to update themselves

[Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-06 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, is it really necessary to add every user to the administrators group to allow them to update their windows boxes? I really can't believe this... Cheers Nicki - -- Linksystem Muenchen GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-06 Thread Paul Gienger
Is it necessary to give root access to install system wide packages in UNIX? There is really no difference, aside from this being a new concept to long time windows users. Installing updates requires enough permissions to modify/delete critical system files, and you don't want Joe Schmoe

Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-06 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 May 2004, Paul Gienger wrote: Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: is it really necessary to add every user to the administrators group to allow them to update their windows boxes? I really can't believe this... Is it

Re: [Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 22:43, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 May 2004, Paul Gienger wrote: Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: is it really necessary to add every user to the administrators group to allow them to update