Re: [Samba] System Imaging
Matt Schwartz wrote: If the client machine differs, the client is automatically synced with the server. I want to achieve this with Samba and a linux tool if possible. Thanks, Matt It's not even in alpha yet, but radwind might be the thing down the road (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/radmind-devel). It's an offshoot from the radmind project (http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/), which I've been using for a few years to maintain OS X labs. It works just as you describe--client checks a local file listing all of the items it should have against what it actually has, then pulls files from a server as needed or erases extra files. Matt who should be working on his samba stuff -- Matt Richardson IT Consultant College Of Arts Letters CSU San Bernardino (909)537-7596 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] System Imaging
Could try rsync, but that will not solve issues related to the Windows registry... -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Schwartz Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:54 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] System Imaging I am using Samba 3.0.20pre1 as a DC and I want to know if there is something similar to Deep Freeze www.faronics.com (except open source) for Linux. Deep Freeze automatically compares the software installation on a client machine to an image on a server. If the client machine differs, the client is automatically synced with the server. I want to achieve this with Samba and a linux tool if possible. Thanks, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] System Imaging
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nathan Vidican wrote: Could try rsync, but that will not solve issues related to the Windows registry... Are you trying to image windows clients? Or linux clients? There was this thing called system imager that VA linux used to use. cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCvDPbIR7qMdg1EfYRAkFbAKDGSgFuXymSZdsxMLvYKlZX9kwtWACguaGy 8pLSJruBGdNjyhUSuvg2+4Q= =6uHY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] System Imaging
I am using Samba 3.0.20pre1 as a DC and I want to know if there is something similar to Deep Freeze www.faronics.com (except open source) for Linux. Deep Freeze automatically compares the software installation on a client machine to an image on a server. If the client machine differs, the client is automatically synced with the server. I want to achieve this with Samba and a linux tool if possible. I don't know what Deep Freeze is, but you can achieve a similar result to one that you describe with WPKG - http://wpkg.org Depending on how you configure it, it is able to install and/or remove software on your workstations (according to the setup on the server side - in this case it would be Samba). So for example, you can configure it so that all clients (or groups of your clients) set up to use it will have Acrobat, Firefox etc. installed, and some other software deinstalled (for example, if you no longer need to use Photoshop). If you combine it with Unattended - http://unattended.sf.net - you will have self-repairing network (like they write it on www.faronics.com - A simple restart restores your workstations down to the last bit and byte.). -- Tomek -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] System Imaging
Tomasz, Thanks for the heads up on WPKG Unattended. I've been using Samba for quite some time now and I have never heard of those projects. I'm defiantly going to download and play w/these. Thanks again! --Gerry -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] System Imaging
Tomasz, Thanks for the heads up on WPKG Unattended. I've been using Samba for quite some time now and I have never heard of those projects. I'm definitely going to download and play w/these. Thanks again! --Gerry -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] System Imaging
Deep Freeze is a pretty slick product... it truly locks down the hard drive. Lets the user do anything he wants install, delete whatever...then on reboot everything is back. Not really sure how it works, someone mentioned interrupt 13 and that it appears to do what you want but on reboot all is back. It is designed to be security software but they have added a bunch of utilities that make it look more like SMS or Ghost...I used it at Plattsburgh State in NY. It was about $35 a unit then ... not sure what it is now. Off-topic, sorry, but just to explain to othersrelatively quickly. Michael J Barber Computer Services Administrator WPTZ/WNNE Heart-Argyle Television p 518-561- x563 m 518-572-6639 f 518-561-5940 Tomasz Chmielewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/24/2005 01:45 PM To: cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject:Re: [Samba] System Imaging I am using Samba 3.0.20pre1 as a DC and I want to know if there is something similar to Deep Freeze www.faronics.com (except open source) for Linux. Deep Freeze automatically compares the software installation on a client machine to an image on a server. If the client machine differs, the client is automatically synced with the server. I want to achieve this with Samba and a linux tool if possible. I don't know what Deep Freeze is, but you can achieve a similar result to one that you describe with WPKG - http://wpkg.org Depending on how you configure it, it is able to install and/or remove software on your workstations (according to the setup on the server side - in this case it would be Samba). So for example, you can configure it so that all clients (or groups of your clients) set up to use it will have Acrobat, Firefox etc. installed, and some other software deinstalled (for example, if you no longer need to use Photoshop). If you combine it with Unattended - http://unattended.sf.net - you will have self-repairing network (like they write it on www.faronics.com - A simple restart restores your workstations down to the last bit and byte.). -- Tomek -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] System Imaging
I am using Samba 3.0.20pre1 as a DC and I want to know if there is something similar to Deep Freeze www.faronics.com (except open source) for Linux. Deep Freeze automatically compares the software installation on a client machine to an image on a server. If the client machine differs, the client is automatically synced with the server. I want to achieve this with Samba and a linux tool if possible. Thanks, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
