Hi everyone, I have been using unattended for a while, and just found wpkg. I think it's going to make my life much easier!
After reading http://wpkg.linuxkidd.com/ (the gui mailing list subscription is down?) and seeing his (or in about 2% of cases her - i couldn't find his/her name anywhere) info on installing using autoit scripts and a limited install account (that ties up the machine during install) I realised that a more elegant solution is possible: Configue XP to support multiple terminal services sessions (the current XP kernel is multiuser) According to Riccardo Raneri (http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2006/04/24/windows-xp-multiuser-remote-desktop/) the current kernel only allows 3 concurrent sessions, but we would only need a maximum of two. To do this you have to downgrade termsrv.dll to version 5.1.2600.2055 (xpsp_sp2_beta1.031215-1745) - download available from http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id20947665). Windows sfp would have to be overcome, but that can be achieved by putting the dll in the $OEM$\$1\System32\Dllcache\ folder on your install share. then a custom adm/reg file for domains/workgroups respectively to tweak HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Licensing Core\EnableConcurrentSessions (DWORD) to a value of 1 and you're nearly laughing. It would then be possible to script an RDP session to be called from a server when the machine starts, so the machine boots, calls a script from the server with it's own machinename as a parameter which in turn calls an RDP session to the machine with the install account, which does what it currently already does, (with the exception of suppressing any reboot requests!) then logs out. This would allow a full interactive autoit lead install to be run in the 'background' (relative to the console user) What do you think? Will. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
