How to install File and Print share services if it is not installed?

Hi all,


a customer of ours wants to use a piece of software which desperately needs
to have the File- and Print share services (FaSS) installed. Until now the
FaSS was not needed, so it is excluded during the unnattended installation
of 200 clients in various locations spread over Germany.

This means that if you open the configuration of a network interface card
(NIC), the FaSS is simply not there and not just deactivated.

I have made some research and only found some stuff on opening the Windows
XP SP2 or ICF firewall for FaSS over GPO or how to enable FaSS again with a
registry key deployment.

So here is the question:
How to install the FaSS unattended on 200 clients without having a chance to
be in front of the PCs?

First I thought it could be done by capturing the FaSS installation with
this packaging tools like Wininstall LE or ezMSI etcpp to deploy that with
the Active Directory Software management. A valued MVP in a german newsgroup
told me, that the FaSS is connected with some various settings belonging to
the NIC and those stuff will differ from machine to machine even if the NIC
is the same on all clients.

He told me that maybe a look into the %systemroot%\inf\netserv.inf would be
ok and someone could build a MSI from the information. Well it is not just a
job of "Right click" the inf and "install" as I have tested.

Thankfully it is not my job to search a solution for as I work for the
software vendor whose software they want to use, but I like the scenario and
if I can help the customer with this, it is more for me personal.

Someone here has any hints for me?


bis dahin / kind regards

Martin Mewes

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Microsoft Certified Professional Windows Server 2003
070-291 - Maintaining a Network Infrastructure
070-293 - Designing a Network Infrastructure
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