[Samba] Automating Windows Update

Christopher Odenbach odenbach at uni-paderborn.de
Fri Sep 24 08:38:12 GMT 2004


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Hi,

> Hi guys I was just wondering if there's already a way to automate the
> process of updating Windows to be specific XP. My idea is to mimic how a
> Windows server domain controller can rollout critical update on the entire
> domain. Can Samba do this? Thanks for any info

What you want is a SUS, Software Update Service. You can get it for free from 
M$. Then all you have to do is tell the clients to poll your sus server 
frequently. This can be done in many serveral ways:

- - by a group policy (up to now only with a Windows domain controller, which is 
probably what you are referring to)
- - by hand (just importing a small registry snippet)
- - by some sort of script doing point 2.
- - ...

This really has not very much to do with samba.

Christopher

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