[wpkg-users] How to I configure push software

[Foo, Steven]

Hi Tomasz,

What I mean was how to I push out software like MSI or EXE in silent
mode?

I understand when the agent is installed on user pc, it will check based
on the condition of the xml script to install software
when the pc is started up. We have pc or laptop which seldom reboot.

So we want to push MSI or EXE software to them instead awaiting to
reboot.

Thanks
Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: Tomasz Chmielewski [mailto:mangoo at wpkg.org] 
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 2:09 PM
To: Foo, Steven
Cc: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] How to I configure push software

Foo, Steven schrieb:
> 
> I was wondering after you have installed, how do I configure push
software?
> 
> I don't read any of that in the documentaion.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

You have several options:
- if you have a Windows server, use "psexec"
- if you have a UNIX server, use "winexe"
- if you have a UNIX server running Samba, you can also use "root
preexec" to execute a script when a client connects to a share (and use
winexe to trigger starting WPKG); i.e. something like this in the
[global] section of smb.conf:

root preexec = /root/scripts/add-wpkg-service %I &

note that the script has to be intelligent enough not to start itself
twice on the same machine.

If you need a basic example of such script, let me know.

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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org