[Gllug] OT Linux scripting of NOVELL Zenworks

[George Saxby]

George F. Saxby
    Systems Engineer
       I.T.S. Team

>>> sms at lateral.net 03/14/02 11:19am >>>

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:23:33AM +0000, George Saxby wrote:
> >Hi,
> >   As per yesterday the pointy heads got us these naff on mobo
nics(
> >realtek 8100 ) thank you all for  saying that 8139 drivers work.
> >     Since then "the pointies" have come up with a cunning plan,
> >since LINUX works we can use Novell Zenworks (based on LINUX) to
image
> >our distributed desk tops with win 2K.

>Are you after something like the Zen Network functionality (you know,
>your desktop follows you round from PC to PC[1]) or do you just want
>to do a distributed install of W2000 over the network?

>For the former, I'd suggest (ummm...) whatever the real name of the
>Novell product is (ZenWorks for Desktops, I think).

 YUP thats the one that they said to use ( we have a Novell site lic. )
it is in fact a LINUX front end , hence their joy when we installed real
linux on one of these cheepo boxen.
     Unfortunately novell does not have it right  unless you are using
a 3com card else it's automated  add a driver sequence is broken (un
asigned symbols)

> For the latter, a simple network install of W2000 should work fine
(did it on >NT4, and I can't see why it should be any different) If your
machines are >reasonably homogenous, then you might find Ghost to be a
better
>option. In either case, a Linux server running Samba should be all
you
>need.

>Cheers,
THANKS Simon

[1] Scary image

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