remote deployment from linux to windows

[Christopher Chisholm]

Thanks for all the feedback so far!  I've looked into unattended a 
little bit, they seem to talk about using other technologies such as msi 
and installshield for creating packages to be deployed.  I'll have to 
look into this more.  the ssh idea seems like a good option, but windows 
machines normally don't have an sshd running.  It's sort of a 
chicken/egg problem.

I really like the idea of the domain batch file... I think that might be 
the best option.  Of course that relies on a domain, but it sounds like 
we want to mostly focus on this tool for bigger organizations that will 
already have something like that set up.

-chris

John Abreau wrote:
> If the Windows machines are logging into a domain, then they have
> a startup batch file that's run on login. It should be simple enough to
> modify these to check your Linux deployment server for new updates.
> You should be able to script it to check if its ip address is in the 
> range
> that the pending updates are intended for.
>
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> On 11/21/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Christopher Chisholm <christopher.chisholm at syamsoftware.com> writes:
>>
>> > The idea is that my company's software would be a standard .msi type
>> > of package, and we could have a single linux system that says "okay, i
>> > want the IP range 192.168.100.50 - 192.168.100.200 to install this".
>> > The theory is to have a cheap deployment tool.  I've been googling all
>> > day but haven't found much about this subject.  Does anyone have any
>> > ideas about this, even just some keywords or protocols I can search
>> > for more information?
>>
>> Well, if you're systems are installed with an sshd, it's a matter of
>> using scp to copy the .msi over, then an ssh command to launch the
>> installer.  I assume your package has been designed to not ask
>> questions which require readin input from wetware?
>>
>> Another option would be to set up a Samba server with the .msi on it,
>> then manually logging into each remote system using something like
>> rdesktop, and manually navigating to that image in order to install
>> it.  I'm sure there's some dos batch file scripting that can done to
>> automate this part.
>>
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>> Paul
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