[wpkg-users] Suggestion for moving the networking architecture from a SMB acce ss method to a web/web services tool

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Twan Fox schrieb:
> On 10/11/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
>> Derek Werthmuller schrieb:
>>> Have been looking at your utility as a way to deploy and manage windows
>>> systems.  The feature I like about the wpkg software is its ability to
>>> check/ verify/ install/uninstall software.  With its option in tight XML
>>> files.
>>>
>>> What is troublesome is how it requires a file share to get the todo list
>> and
>>> packages to the systems to deploy.  This makes it difficult to securely
>>> update systems that are not inside the secure network perimeter.
>> It is as secure as a normal file access in a Windows domain (I assume
>> you are using a Windows domain). You can set it to a local machine, too.
>>
>> Anyway, you can always use some 3rd party tool, like scp, to download
>> the files to the local machine, and deploy it from there (i.e., use "pre
>> script" in WPKG Client).
> 
> 
> I could see a problem with a 'pre-script' to download packages for
> installation being that it would have no way to know what packages needed to
> be installed without reinventing the 'package selection' sections of wpkg.js.

I meant something else: download wpkg.js and xml files to a local folder.
Then, use something similar for <install ...> instructions - then, you 
don't have to worry about reinventing the package selection.


> Besides, I have a feeling that the suggestion included that there should be
> a way to get the .xml files to the clients running wpkg.js without needing a
> file share, and there is already such a solution. Wpkg web.

Yep.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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