Install setup.exe with silent install switch -s -f1\\setup.iss

I'm having a bear of a time figuring this out.

I need to install Thinprint which is a program used with Citrix to solve
printing issues. They do not provide a .msi file so I use a setup.exe with
a silent install script recorded as setup.iss.
I have tried for 3 days to get this working to deploy to all my domain's
PCs.

My company use to have every as a domain admin so that they would have local
admin rights. WSe'll, when I was hired I removed domain admin rights and
made them just local user permissions on PCs. Now this is the first big
software rollout and I look like an idiot. I can't get the setup.exe to
run.

I have a login script were it work, but only if they are a local admin. If
they aren't, the msiexec.exe and setup run in task manager but it just sits
there for hours.

This weekend I tried the GPO startup to get it to run as the system account.
I still have the same issues.

I tried .bat, .vbs, .whs and I just can't get it to work.

I have the install and silent install file on a public drive which users map
H: to. So this is the command I try to run.

H:\setup -s -f1h:\setup.iss

I have also tried unc.
\\server\public\setup -s -f1\\server\public\setup.iss

I have used runas and psexec to run with admin permissions. I must be doing
the command line wrong or something. I programed a little delphi .exe
program to run the command. It works but with only if admin rights on the
PC.

Can someone hold my hand and actually give me the code or examples? I
searched google for hours doing research to run my script 100 different
ways. Non work. I've got to be missing something very simple.

Torgeir
Mon Jul 19 13:49:58 CDT 2004

Malic wrote:

> I'm having a bear of a time figuring this out.
>
> I need to install Thinprint which is a program used with Citrix to solve
> printing issues. They do not provide a .msi file so I use a setup.exe with
> a silent install script recorded as setup.iss.
> I have tried for 3 days to get this working to deploy to all my domain's
> PCs.
>
> My company use to have every as a domain admin so that they would have local
> admin rights. WSe'll, when I was hired I removed domain admin rights and
> made them just local user permissions on PCs. Now this is the first big
> software rollout and I look like an idiot. I can't get the setup.exe to
> run.
>
> I have a login script were it work, but only if they are a local admin. If
> they aren't, the msiexec.exe and setup run in task manager but it just sits
> there for hours.
>
> This weekend I tried the GPO startup to get it to run as the system account.
> I still have the same issues.
>
> I tried .bat, .vbs, .whs and I just can't get it to work.
>
> I have the install and silent install file on a public drive which users map
> H: to. So this is the command I try to run.
>
> H:\setup -s -f1h:\setup.iss
>
> I have also tried unc.
> \\server\public\setup -s -f1\\server\public\setup.iss
Hi

To be able to access files over the network from the computer
startup script, you could e.g. grant read access for the AD group
"Domain Computers" to the share where the files are.

Alternatively, from the startup script, you could map a drive on
the fly, like this (VBScript example):

sDomainUser = "arp.corp\computer_fix"
sPswd = "something"

Set oNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")

oNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
"Y:", "\\server\netlogon\some folder",, sDomainUser, sPswd


I assume you have added logic to your script so it doesn't install
the software if it is already installed (or else it will be installed
every time the computer is started).



--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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