Unfortuneatly, you are right. One of the key reasons NT is handled
differently than Unix is the registry. In order for us to support the use
of the registry, we have to use MS security, as well as MS API calls. Given
that our client in already installed, there might be ways we could overcome
this in the future for patches and upgrades. But the initial client install
on NT/2000 will always require a push from a validated domain user for the
above reasons.
Jason, one thing you can do in your environment, is create a user across all
the seperate domains with the same name and password (with admin rights).
This can then be used to do your patches and upgrades. I realize that this
is not the most secure setup, but would be required to keep you from having
to run a seperate install in each domain, since you have no centralized
security.
Bob Lawerence, I do agree with the pain in doing installs/upgrades on Unix
systems with an NT Master. This is a problem I have been requesting a
solution from NetBackup engineering on for about 6 months now. This is
begining to be a more common scenario. There is no need to keep a seperate
NT Master if you have a Unix Master now.
Also, mention was made that you need to setup an NT 'distribution' box as a
media server in bp.conf to give it rights to do upgrades/patches. This is
not required, you can pick ANY NT/2000 box to do the distribution from.
Hope this clears up some confusion.
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca] [mailto:AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 6:33 AM
To: Veritas BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
Unfortunatly, in our environment here there are many domains, and no real
centralized 'domain admin' concept in place. So if this is the case, then I
must go to every machine individually to apply the patch.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Bakh [mailto:bbakh AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 6:24 PM
To: 'Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]'; Veritas BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
If your logged in as Domain Admin you will have the proper rights to push
out the clients from one NT box. If you are using a local admin account it
won't work.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca] [mailto:AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:45 AM
To: Veritas BU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Windows NT clients
Using NetBackup 3.4.1DC, I have a Solaris Master and Media server. I am in
the process of setting up a Windows Admin station for configuration of
Windows clients. I am trying to figure out how to apply patch 645 to Windows
clients running 3.4 (unpatched).
To upgrade the Unix clients, all I had to do was run the update_clients
command. Is there something similar in NT? With the patch itself, I have
tried using the 'Apply to other system' option, but it always fails. I have
almost 70 clients to patch, and would prefer not to have to log onto them
all individually.
Thanks
Jason
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