Re: Remote Application Installation

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I found the Windows Security button you mentioned. I was wondering
what that was for, now I know. It is like doing a cntl-alt-del for
the remote desktop.

Thanks for the advice on the remote software installs as well. I see
now where it may be useful to copy some of my application installation
cds to folders on the server. Perhaps even convert them to .iso files
and use a utility to launch them on a shared virtual cd drive.

I just wanted to find ways to do some of this from home as I move
people over to the new lan. Being a small business, there aren't
spare computers people can use while I configure their main
workstation.

While I am thinking of it, I know as a user on an enterprise level
system, some software was actually installed on aserver and not the
local workstation and accessed simply from your Start/Run Programs
menu. Does SBS allow that?


On Apr 5, 11:16 am, "Bill Sanderson"
<bill_sander...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"Skygazer61" <Skygaze...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Should I be able to install applications remotely by connecting to a
client desktop using RWW?

I tried doing this and enabled file transfer when making the
connection.  I can see and browse the CD on my local computer using
the remote desktop.  If i try to click on the setup file it just sits
there and does nothing.  I also tried doing it using the add remove
programs option and had the same results.

What is the correct way to do a remote installation from a CD to a
client computer? Should I be doing it by connecting to the server and
doing it thru server management?

Complicated question.  There are lots of meanings to "remote installation."
RWW, or Remote Desktop or RDP is a unique networking method that is
optimized for screen-keyboard-mouse interactions, rather than file
transfers.

You can (and I have) do software installations remotely via VPN--i.e.
sitting at home with the CD or DVD in your home machine, installing software
on a client machine in a network miles away.

Unless you have a broadband connection with a high uplink speed (this is
quite unusual in the U.S., but common in other parts of the
world--Scandinavia or Korea, for example)--this will be very slow--the speed
of the data transfer is limited by the slow link.  However, slow or not, it
should actually work.

I've done this mostly to prove to myself that it is possible.  It's the sort
of thing where you start something going, get past all the interactive
prompts, and then go eat dinner and come back a few hours later to see what
happened.

A better bet is to put the CD or DVD in a drive on the target
network--workstation or server, share that drive, then go around to the
clients via RWW or RDP, and do the install,  This will be moving the data at
the full network speed in the remote office.

Then there are installs via unattended mechanisms, which I've almost never
done--so I can't describe them accurately.



Also, if I want to restart a client computer remotely how should I be
doing that? When logged on through RWW you don't have the option to
restart and I don't see that option anywhere in server management?

This varies depending on some settings that I don't fully understand.  If
you hit the start button on the client, you should see an entry near the
bottom of the right-column for "Windows Security."  Click on that and see if
there's a shutdown option.  If there is, it will work--and allow for a
restart.  If there is no such option, you need to use the command prompt
"shutdown" command.

On vista, you'll need an elevated command prompt--right-click command prompt
and run as administrator.  On XP, just doing start, run, cmd <enter> should
do the job.

Simplest is shutdown -i <enter>

which will get you a gui to fill in.

Choose localhost for the system name, and choose the other options to suit
yourself.

Remember some details:  If you succeed in shutting the system down, rather
than restarting, it may be a long way off either in distance or time before
it can be restarted.

Sometimes, machines hang on shutdown--perhaps in a state that doesn't allow
you to connect.  bummer.

We could also talk about wake-on-lan which is useful if a machine is shut
down and you need it not to be, but that could be another conversation.

.

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