Wicked187

Has anyone come up with a way to silently install OpenSSH for Windows? The package is available at http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows It uses the NSIS packager. I have it do a silent install, but it still has one popup, and it doesn't run some other needed commands to start the service.

996: You have nested doubled quotes... When you use the double quote in your HTML, the VBScript thinks it is closing out the double quote for it. Use single quotes for your HTML and double quotes for your VBScript.

I use Classic... it is faster, and I especially like the Classic start menu and Contol Panel View... it is nice for my users as well, as they are used to Win 98 and 2K

This is a pretty simple setup... Just make a distribution point on the network, and run the i386/Winnt32.exe... instead of creating a Winnt.sif... I create an unattend.txt and specify the following in my batch script: set AnswerFile=.\unattend.txt set UdfFile=.\unattend.udb set ComputerName=%1 set SetupFiles=.\I386 start /wait I386\winnt32.exe /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend0:%AnswerFile% /udf:%ComputerName%,%UdfFile% /makelocalsource /dudisable /syspart:C:\ /tempdrive:C:\ /copysource:lang Essentially save that and run <filename>.bat <COMPUTERNAME> and it run fine, you will need some tweaking... and you may not need the computer name, I use that because I deploy many PCs through this.

I know how to use the search function, it just isn't working. Out of 20 searches, it has worked about 3 times.

It may be a good idea to edit your original post and remove something that you would not want all over the Internet. *Hint* It is not your password.

THe search doesn't seem to be working, everytime I do a search, it retruns zero results. even on simple things, like "theme"

Does anyone know of a registry tweak to change the theme of the login screen? I want it to be the Classic theme, and not Luna. This is not to change it from the playschool-ish "Click on Me" login, but the theme on the Ctrl+Alt+Del login...

I have decided that I am just going to replace the ntuser.dat in the Default User profile... I have been testing out xcopy and copy, and I cannot find a way to overwrite a hidden file... are there any ways of doing this, or perhaps, is there a command to change attributes like chmod in *nix? [EDIT] I found it, attrib -H <filename> removes the hidden status...

Unattend.doc in the the deploy.cab contains a list of all the components.... [Edit] This was the case in Windows 2000, but not XP... Most of the components names are the same, but there are some new ones.

Does anyone know where I can get a list of components for use in the [Components] section? I really just want to know the name for Games, as I do not want any games installed on the computer.

Will modifying the the HKEY_CURRENT_USER while no one is logged in, as is the case when running from cmdlines.txt, apply it to the HKEY_USER for all users?

That didn't work, no Quick Launch was there... Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way... Maybe I should setup a profile, and have it be copied to the Default User profile... will it be over written if I put in via the $OEM$ method?

I am trying to tweak the user environment settings before I deploy XP to all of our desktops, and I am having problems finding registry tweaks for the theme. I want to use the "Windows Classic" theme, "Classic View" in the Control Panel, I want the "Quick Launch" enabled by default, and I want "Windows Classic Folders" for Explorer. I cannot seem to find tweaks for this.

I have not used Windows Server 2003 yet, so RIS is probably different, but in Windows 2000 Server, you could not add NIC drivers, as stated by M$ themselves... the boot diskette just would not allow for it, and if you cannot get the diskette to boot up, then you cannot connect to the TFTP server, and you cannot install your image. As for having SID problems and such with Ghost... you just use Sysprep, it removes the SID and lets you script the Mini-setup that occurs afterwards, which includes joining the domain. My problem was with disimilar hardware. Personally, I have moved past RIS, it just doesn't really offer what is needed. Microsoft themselves have stated that they do not intend for it to be around much longer anyway. They are pushing WinPE. But, I regress, I have not used Windows Server 2003, so there is a lot I am missing, for sure.