Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-12 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Charles, Charles Gargent wrote: > Works on my XP machine and my 7 RC1 machine Both variables work on all NT-based Windows operating systems including 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7[1] (and all Server variants). However I still recommend to use %SystemRoot% on these systems. br, Rainer [1] Jus

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-12 Thread Charles Gargent
Works on my XP machine and my 7 RC1 machine 2009/8/12 Rainer Meier : > Hi Charles, > > Charles Gargent wrote: >> try %WINDIR% > > I think %windir% has been used in pre-Windows NT times while starting from > Windows NT %SystemRoot% has been introduced. > > Have a look at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlS

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-12 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Charles, Charles Gargent wrote: > try %WINDIR% I think %windir% has been used in pre-Windows NT times while starting from Windows NT %SystemRoot% has been introduced. Have a look at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment and you will find windir to point at %SystemR

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Gargent
try %WINDIR% 2009/8/11 David Christensen : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rainer Meier wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> David Christensen wrote: >>> Thanks for the help with this, looks like I got it working.  The file >>> needed to be installed under C:\Windows, I had to specify t

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-11 Thread David Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rainer Meier wrote: > Hi David, > > David Christensen wrote: >> Thanks for the help with this, looks like I got it working. The file >> needed to be installed under C:\Windows, I had to specify the absolute >> path in order for it to work %Windows% w

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-11 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi David, David Christensen wrote: > Thanks for the help with this, looks like I got it working. The file > needed to be installed under C:\Windows, I had to specify the absolute > path in order for it to work %Windows% wouldn't work for me. %Windows% is not a pre-defined variable. Open a cmd sh

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-11 Thread David Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rainer Meier wrote: > Hi Malte, > > Malte Starostik wrote: >> In such cases I usually put the file in the same directory as the installer, >> i.e. somewhere in %SOFTWARE%. Then, the first (source) argument to the copy >> command is on the distribut

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread Malte Starostik
Am Dienstag, 11. August 2009 00:24:30 schrieb Rainer Meier: > Hi Malte, > > Malte Starostik wrote: > > In such cases I usually put the file in the same directory as the > > installer, i.e. somewhere in %SOFTWARE%. Then, the first (source) > > argument to the copy command is on the distribution sha

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Malte, Malte Starostik wrote: > In such cases I usually put the file in the same directory as the installer, > i.e. somewhere in %SOFTWARE%. Then, the first (source) argument to the copy > command is on the distribution share and the second (target) argument is on > the local host. Both of

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread Malte Starostik
Am Montag, 10. August 2009 23:59:45 schrieb David Christensen: > Malte Starostik wrote: > > it goes like: > > > > > > > > > > > > [corrected missing " above] > > > > where %COMSPEC% expands to the fully qualified name of cmd.exe on NT > > based Windows versions and command.com on

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread David Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Malte Starostik wrote: > Am Montag, 10. August 2009 23:28:07 schrieb David Christensen: >> Malte Starostik wrote: >>> Am Montag, 10. August 2009 21:40:15 schrieb David Christensen: Charles Gargent wrote: >> Is anyone familiar with modifying ms

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread Malte Starostik
Am Montag, 10. August 2009 23:28:07 schrieb David Christensen: > Malte Starostik wrote: > > Am Montag, 10. August 2009 21:40:15 schrieb David Christensen: > >> Charles Gargent wrote: > Is anyone familiar with modifying msi files by way of mst to do silent > installs, is this even possible

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread David Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Malte Starostik wrote: > Am Montag, 10. August 2009 21:40:15 schrieb David Christensen: >> Charles Gargent wrote: Is anyone familiar with modifying msi files by way of mst to do silent installs, is this even possible? > [...] >>> Besides, any

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread Malte Starostik
Am Montag, 10. August 2009 21:40:15 schrieb David Christensen: > Charles Gargent wrote: > >> Is anyone familiar with modifying msi files by way of mst to do silent > >> installs, is this even possible? > > [...] > > > > Besides, anything you can run on the command line can be run in WPKG > > (if th

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread David Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Gargent wrote: >> Is anyone familiar with modifying msi files by way of mst to do silent >> installs, is this even possible? > > If you run msiexec /i __PATHTOPACKAGE__ /qn > > The /qn will run the install with no user interface, ie it is sil

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread Charles Gargent
> Is anyone familiar with modifying msi files by way of mst to do silent > installs, is this even possible? If you run msiexec /i __PATHTOPACKAGE__ /qn The /qn will run the install with no user interface, ie it is silent, however if you want it unattended you may need to supply extra properties o

[wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

2009-08-10 Thread David Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just started using WPKG for my samba domain and have successfully installed some of the application listed on the site. I would also like to be able to push installs of "most" applications to my windows clients above and beyond what is currently ava