istall programs stored on network drives

[gds]

Hi,
I am wondering if its possible to store and install programs from a network share with opsi. I have an opsi server running on ubuntu 14.04. I would like to have my opsi server call executable installer files from a local server for bandwidth purposes. Our file servers run on bsd and we have about 300 windows computers in various cities around the US. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[wolfbardo]

opsi server call executable installer files from a local server ... run on bsd

For me there is no smooth solution beside using opsi-depotservers (multi-depot environment)

On workaround might be fiddling with a dummy depotserver in your local locations which mounts the necessary share via nfs from your bsd server. But this will not work out of the box and you have to deal with the structure of your opsi packages

Another more ugly way is always to mount in your opsiscripts under windows in a sub the share of the bsd-server where resides your executables.

regards,

bardo wolf

[gds]

Thank you for your response. I ended up using the winbatch portion of my setup.ins and pointed to my network share. my future plan is to have a depot server in each regional office. Thank you again.