I wouldn?t mind finding out a bit more about that, Rainer. Any web sites or
anything? And could the same kind of thing be done using c#?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Rainer Schmidt
> Sent: 17-October-2005 02:33
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: remote installs
>
> Now don't laugh.... But Visual Basic is actually a life
> saver. With the abilty to take controll of applications and
> feed keystrokes into them a sort of macro setup can be
> created. I saved myself a few times. Like setting up 250
> Win98 desktops, all different, all Hummingbird TCP/IP at the
> time which had to be configured, and a plethora of group and
> individual settings for a financial desktop. It's all F***ed
> up and highly 'one shot' that way but what isn't with
> Microsoft.... Unix....
> I'd have done that in one day.
>
> VB as 'installer' is perverse but nice. At least you can
> prevent brain death....
>
> kim aldis wrote:
>
> >These remote desktop things are fine but what none of these
> people seem
> >to realise is that installing software onto numbers of computers
> >interactively is a brain-dead waste of time. Unix knows how to do it
> >but Windows, I just despair.
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Klemens Kopetzky
> >>Sent: 16-October-2005 22:55
> >>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>Subject: AW: remote installs
> >>
> >>I don't know whether this could be of any use for you, but
> you can use
> >>netmeeting (which is part of every windows
> >>installation) to access remote computers. In advantage to mstsc.exe
> >>you see the same output you would see on the local monitor.
> >>Unfortunately I cannot really tell you how fast/slow it is
> as I have
> >>never used VNC in comparison. Maybe you just try it out ;-)
> >>
> >>Kind regards
> >>
> >> Klemens
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >>Von: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] Im
> >>Auftrag von kim aldis
> >>Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Oktober 2005 02:19
> >>An: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>Betreff: RE: remote installs
> >>
> >>Here's one just for fun: this is how psexec works, kind of, but in
> >>python. I think PsExec also copies stuff to the admin$ share.
> >>
> >>
> >>http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread19634.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of kim aldis
> >>>Sent: 14-October-2005 16:59
> >>>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>Subject: RE: remote installs
> >>>
> >>>Exactly.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Erik
> >>>>Sent: 14-October-2005 15:14
> >>>>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>Subject: Re: remote installs
> >>>>
> >>>>Keep in mind that you can't do everything through remote
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>desktop, even
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>when logging on under administrator some services and apps
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>will still
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>output to the main terminal, which you can see with VNC.
> >>>>
> >>>>Erik
> >>>>
> >>>>On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 09:56 -0400, Bernard Lebel wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Why not trying remote desktop connection instead of VNC?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>It's built-in
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Windows, works as well as VNC (in fact I find it a little
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>bit faster).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Cheers
> >>>>>Bernard
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On 10/14/05, kim aldis <kim(at)cg-soup.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>and 64 bit VNC is ***sloooooooooow***
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> _____
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>Behalf Of kim aldis
> >>>>>>Sent: 14-October-2005 12:39
> >>>>>>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>>>Subject: RE: remote installs
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>nothing to add except that sometimes the windows security
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>can jam it
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>up somewhat. I'm setting up at a place right now where
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>the admin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>thought he was doing us a favour by giving us a whole
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>bunch of
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>>freedom. Admin accounts with no passwords. For remote
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>work you have
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>to go and tell windows it's ok to accept remote
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>logins with no
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>>password. You also have to turn off simple file
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>sharing. Plus, if
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>you're accessing data on a password protected file
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>server, you have
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>to go through all the slaves and set them up to remember
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>the password.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>I've nearly got it nailed. Still an issue trying to use
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>psexec to
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>run bats and exes stored non-locally.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Damn windows.... none of these problems on *nix.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> _____
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>Behalf Of Martin Chatterjee
> >>>>>>Sent: 14-October-2005 09:38
> >>>>>>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>>>Subject: Re: remote installs
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Kim,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>We've been using psexec to remote install XSI here at
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>Spans&Partner
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>for quite some time now.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Works perfectly for us.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I'm joining this thread quite lately, but if you need any
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>details,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>just let me know!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Cheers,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Martin
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>-----------------------------------
> >>>>>>Martin Chatterjee
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Lead TD (Creatures | RnD | Pipeline) Spans & Partner GmbH
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>[martin.c(at)spans.de]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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