Re: Different ways of application installation
Re: Different ways of application installation
- Subject: Re: Different ways of application installation
- From: "parag vibhute" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:26:37 +0530
I don't know much about Mac OS X Server, but does it have this type of
remote installation without requiring ARD?
Thanks,
Palav
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:04 PM, I. Savant <email@hidden>
wrote:
> > Remotely means pushing software packages to clients on a network. Not
> > understood meaning of "An installer that pulls its payload from a remote
> > server".
>
> That's considerably more complicated than a simple client-side
> install by dragging an application to a folder. :-)
>
> I wonder if you realize that there are mechanisms already in place
> on every Mac to handle 'push' installs for any installer package.
> Apple Remote Desktop makes this easy for any application. You can
> select multiple computers on your network, tell it to install a
> package, run a script, copy a file, etc. In the case of a standard
> installer package, you can just select the package and it'll run
> silently on all clients.
>
> This, IMO, is a far better solution than reinventing the wheel for
> an individual application. From the very first page of the document I
> sent you:
>
> "Network administrators can use a type of managed install, a remote
> install, to install a product on several networked computers using
> Remote Desktop. No user interaction occurs in this type of install."
>
> The how-to's on that, however, are best suited for another list, but
> that is *the* standard way on OS X - it unfortunately requires ARD
> (Apple Remote Desktop), I believe.
>
> A somewhat clunkier method might be to run a script via SSH ...
>
> --
> I.S.
>
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