deployment

CUPS configuration
Our CUPS server gave errors when we tried to print to a new print queue for the Canon iR2200:

Solution: http://www.howtoforge.com/ipp_based_print_server_cups

Automated installation of an printer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314486

Designing a Distribution Share

File Mangling

These instructions are basically my adjustments to Unattended's step-by-step guide.

1. Create a directory for the install files
   
   cd <where you are going to put things>
mkdir unattended
cd uattended
2. Download Unattended
   • Zip file download

One thing I really appreciate about Macs and OS X is managing hardware drivers. Well, more that you generally DON'T have to manage it. Just pop in the OS X disc, install the OS onto the computer and that's it - you don't have to spend hours finding and installing a multitude of drivers for whatever hardware options that particular PC has.

With the addition of 22 Wintel desktops and laptops to an existing infrastructure of Windows XP and MacOS workstations, I figured it was worthwhile to see if it was possible to make managing the deployment and ongoing support of Windows workstations as easy as it was for the Macs.

Dialog between client computers and management server is based on actual standards, HTTP/HTTPS protocol and XML data formatting.
Management server runs on Apache/MySQL/PHP/PERL server, under Linux or Windows NT based computers.

Inventoried client computers can run Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista or Linux operating systems. There are also contributed agents for Sun Solaris, *BSD, IBM AIX 5.X, HP-UX and Mac OS X.

The Management server is made up of 4 main components which can be hosted on a single computer or on different computers to allow load balancing: