[wpkg-users] More elegant solution to onscreen login to run Autoit install scripts

[Will Sheldon]

Hi everyone,

I have been using unattended for a while, and just found wpkg. I think
it's going to make my life much easier!

After reading http://wpkg.linuxkidd.com/ (the gui mailing list
subscription is down?) and seeing his (or in about 2% of cases her - i
couldn't find his/her name anywhere) info on installing using autoit
scripts and a limited install account (that ties up the machine during
install) I realised that a more elegant solution is possible:

Configue XP to support multiple terminal services sessions (the
current XP kernel is multiuser) According to Riccardo Raneri
(http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2006/04/24/windows-xp-multiuser-remote-desktop/)
the current kernel only allows 3 concurrent sessions, but we would
only need a maximum of two.

To do this you have to downgrade termsrv.dll to version 5.1.2600.2055
(xpsp_sp2_beta1.031215-1745) - download available from
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id20947665).

Windows sfp would have to be overcome, but that can be achieved by
putting the dll in the $OEM$\$1\System32\Dllcache\ folder on your
install share.

then a custom adm/reg file for domains/workgroups respectively to
tweak  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal
Server\Licensing Core\EnableConcurrentSessions (DWORD) to a value of 1
and you're nearly laughing.

It would then be possible to script an RDP session to be called from a
server when the machine starts, so the machine boots, calls a script
from the server with it's own machinename as a parameter which in turn
calls an RDP session to the machine with the install account, which
does what it currently already does, (with the exception of
suppressing any reboot requests!) then logs out.

This would allow a full interactive autoit lead install to be run in
the 'background' (relative to the console user)

What do you think?


Will.


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