Baek8280

Hello everyone,

I am seeking help on tackling this. I am trying to mass deploy 2 CAB files to all my workstations in the office silently. These 2 CAB files are AEXClipboard.CAB and VSFlex8.CAB which are the 2 components for Altiris help desk. I did some tinkering in distribute software and drilled into those cab files in DS Console, but I get the following error: I entered in high level admin credentials, selected Apply to all users, Copy all directory files and Copy subdirectories. What am I missing here?

Baek8280

Has anyone attempted to try this before? If not, what are others doing for this process when a user first logs into a PC that does not have the CAB files installed? I do know that the user can just run the install themselves, but I rather not have them see this or I will have mobs of people thinking something is wrong with their PC.

I look forward to some response on this.

Thanks everyone

almanza

Are you trying to copy the cab files to the pc and then execute something after they are there?

negal

Baek8280

Sorry for the late response, I tried doing this and it still gives me the 193 error.

This is what I have done in DS Console:

1. Selected Distribute Software.

2. For the name \\server\nscap\bin\win32\x86\vsflex8.CAB

3. Checked Apply to all users, copy all directory files, and copy subdirectories.

4. For advance features I added admin name and password.

I noticed there is a Password field for package distribution options, do I need anything in this?

almanza

Can you manually run the install without using DS? What exactly are you trying to install?

You can't execute a cab file - you will need to extract the contents and then run the setup or install file - once you have extracted the files you could also copy them on your server and deploy from there.

Note: If you simply want to copy the cab files to your pcs you do not want to select "distribute software" - you can use "copy file to" or setup a script for your copy and use "run script"

Baek8280

My users can run the manual install, but I do not want them to do that from my previous posts.

I would like to put the CAB's on the machines in the office so that the users do not get prompted to install anything. My question is, where should I put the location of these CAB files? I read the INF files it does not mention where this may put the dll's.

I just thought if I ran the software even as distrubute software that it would have loaded the dll's on the machine. Forgive me as I do not know much about CAB files and how they work.

almanza

okay, what i would suggest is

NOTE: This does not install app only copies cab files and registers them

1) first check the contents of the cab

2) next search a pc for those files on a pc that already has the app installed and make note of their locations

3) setup a job that copies the contents of the cab file to the location as noted in step 2 (I believe you will also need to register the files using a regsvr32 command)

4) setup your job in DS to run your script

Example of my crystal viewer script -

copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\CRSmartTag.dll" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\crviewer.dep" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\crviewer.dll" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\crviewer.inf" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\crviewer.oca" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\cselexpt.ocx" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\reportparameterdialog.dll" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\sviewhlp.dll" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\swebrs.dll" c:\windows\system32
copy "\\server\library\Crystal Viewer Fix\xqviewer.dll" c:\windows\system32

regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\CRSmartTag.dll
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\crviewer.dep
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\crviewer.dll
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\crviewer.inf
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\crviewer.oca
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\cselexpt.ocx
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\reportparameterdialog.dll
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\sviewhlp.dll
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\swebrs.dll
regsvr32 /s c:\windows\system32\xqviewer.dll


Hope this helps.

Baek8280

Awesome, thanks for the response almanza. I will try this out and let you know how it goes.