Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-14 Thread lloyd
Brian Mathis wrote: > You don't need to buy rsh to do this. There is a freeware tool from > sysinternals.com called "psexec" that allows you to remotely run a > command on any machine without first installing a service on it. You > only need rights to log in to that machine. It can be found here

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-14 Thread lloyd
Brian Mathis wrote: -. If that's still not good enough, and you really are worried about people sniffing your connections and seeing the "setup.exe /s" and "dir" commands, look into getting cygwin/sshd installed and running on every machine. Argh so much for that idea: "Cygwin is not secur

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-14 Thread lloyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not natively, but some of us are playing with various ideas - I am (fairly) successfully using a modified approach to deploy software triggered by a machine logoff script in group policy - all the details are already posted to the list, unfortunatly the thread title is a b

RE: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-14 Thread kevin
. Regards Kevin Lawry -Original Message- From: Brad Erdman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 August 2003 19:41 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Unattended] remote upgrades? Hi, I have seen a number of people asking about this and just wanted to through

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Mathis
I assume when you say "secure" you really mean "encrypted network traffic". I don't use rsh, but on psexec: It uses regular NT authentication, so it's just as secure as the rest of your Windows network. If that's not good enough: -. Replace those hubs with switches - no one will be sniffing an

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-11 Thread Andrew Clark
rdman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 August 2003 19:41 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Unattended] remote upgrades? Hi, I have seen a number of people asking about this and just wanted to through my 2 cents. I am using MS Software Update Sever (http://www.microsoft

RE: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-11 Thread Brad Erdman
reinvent the wheel? Brad > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 10:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Unattended] remote upgrades? > > > Lloyd (not sure if that is your first name or

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-11 Thread Brian Mathis
You don't need to buy rsh to do this. There is a freeware tool from sysinternals.com called "psexec" that allows you to remotely run a command on any machine without first installing a service on it. You only need rights to log in to that machine. It can be found here: http://www.sysinternal

RE: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-10 Thread kevin
can't find it let me know & I will mail you a copy off list Regards Kevin Lawry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of lloyd Sent: 09 August 2003 21:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Unattended] remote upgrades? does unattended offer

[Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-09 Thread lloyd
does unattended offer anything by way of automated upgrades for remote machines? e.g. apply a security patch to a number of machines in an organization without having to visit each desktop? --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built A