Ben Greenfield wrote:
My plan is to get unattended up and running and then use filemaker to manage the creation of the 3 unattended files that need to be maintained to manage users and machines on a network.
I don't know what filemaker is, but I just use a text editor to edit text files?
Admittedly I don't know what I'm doing but it looks to me like one manages an active unattended site by editing the unattended.csv, unattended.txt, and, install.bat.
I don't know what unattended.csv file is; never had to edit it. After your setup is "workable", I only make changes to "install.bat".
Locating and creating install scripts for each item to be installed (there must be an extensive collection of these somewhere?)
WPKG looks like some sort of management and xml storage of this data.
WPKG is totally independent of Unattended (well, it can be installed by Unattended).
WPKG is used for installing *new* software on machines that are already running: for example, you decide that you need to install a new antivirus program to all your 100 workstations, so you configure WPKG in a correct way and WPKG installs this antivirus next time each of this workstations are booted.
Unattended, in contrast, is used to install Windows and software from scratch: repartition/format drives if necessary, install operating system, software etc. You wouldn't want to repeat that process just to install one additional program.
One just needs to plan a way to manage those files and wpkg looks like one way.
Don't think so that WPKG has anything to do with "those files" (you are talking about unattended.csv, unattended.txt, and install.bat, right?). You can edit these files on a server side using a text editor - embedded editor in mc is my favourite :)
WPKG works on a client side; WPKG's configuration is stored on a server and can be hand edited using a text editor, too.
So, Tomek does WPKG manage those 3 files?
Someone should fact check this.
Which files - do you mean unattended.csv, unattended.txt and install.bat? If yes, than the answer is no, as I explained above.
Tomek
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