Hi all, It seems the greatest advantage that a solution such as RM Community Connect 3 has over installing SuSE Linux with Samba in a large school network to act as a PDC for Window XP clients is: Rolling out software. How do people manage their large installs? Silent install scripts? I'm new to this but I think this issue is possibly the show stopper in terms of convincing management they don't need to be locked in to proprietory companies. For those that don't know, RM Connect has a tool that allows admins to easily monitor changes that an install makes, and then pushes it out to selected machines at tthe click of a mouse. It's worked well here on Connect 2.4 (a purchasing decision made 6 months before I got this job). It's now time to move away from 98 on the desktop as it's being unreliable, and I don't want to be tied in any more. The progression that's assumed is RM CC3, but now's the time to move this school into a more open source solution. I could do with a hand on this specific issue. Any ideas...? (The other two schools I've installed and managed Linux in are small enough to manually install all software - that's less possible here and I'd like a more scalable solution). (I know the advantages of using Linux thin-clients or even fat clients. But XP has been settled on already for the curriculum desktops.) Thanks loads for any suggestions. -- Matt Johnson ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:06, Matt Johnson wrote:
Rolling out software.
How do people manage their large installs? Silent install scripts? I'm new to this but I think this issue is possibly the show stopper in terms of convincing management they don't need to be locked in to proprietory companies.
Hi Matt, Approximately how many samba servers would you need to set up? When you say "the changes that an install makes" talking about RM Connect 3, do you mean "an install of Connect 3 on top of Windows that was already there" regards, Seb
Approximately how many samba servers would you need to set up?
When you say "the changes that an install makes" talking about RM Connect 3, do you mean "an install of Connect 3 on top of Windows that was already there"
Sorry, I've not been very clear. RM CC3 (and 2.4) has a tool to rollout software to the *desktops*. For example, let's say it's decided that everyone here needs My First Talking Fish 7 installed. With Connect I can install it once as administrator on a client and use an application wizard to roll it out to all desktops when they next boot. If I install another option as a server solution (ie SuSE Linux), I was wondering how people rollout their client software in Linux server/Windows client setups. Do people install software manually on each client? Or automate using a combination of Liux/Windows tools? Cheers -- Matt Johnson ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html
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