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Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Khabal on April 27, 2004, 05:15:57 PM: Hi,

I was wondering if SME Server can be set up to DL and relay Windows Updates to Win98 boxes like SMS can do. I did a search on the forums but came up empty. Maybe I wasn't using the correct keywords.

Many thanks.
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: ergozd on April 27, 2004, 05:32:35 PM: Check Nightpirits e-smith-windowsupdate_cache contrib at

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nightspirit/e-smith-windowsupdate_cache/

Good luck, Ergin
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Khabal on April 27, 2004, 05:35:33 PM: Thanks very much. I'll check it out.

Have a good one,
K
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Anonymous on April 27, 2004, 10:55:56 PM: Installing went like a charm but what is this contrib doing exactly and can it be configured?
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Anonymous on April 27, 2004, 11:32:17 PM: Quote from: "Anonymous"
Installing went like a charm but what is this contrib doing exactly and can it be configured?

It cannot be configured. It caches the windows update on your server, so after updating one client, the others can download the uploads very fast from your own server.
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Crome on April 28, 2004, 09:08:31 AM: So everyhting that gets downloaded from the windowsupdate site gets stored on the server's hard drive and stays there forever? Is this cache purgeable? Where are these files located?

Sorry to be such a bug but I always like to know what things are doing on the system... :roll:
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: PhilV on April 28, 2004, 11:03:22 AM: Sounds interesting... think I'll watch this topic..
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Khabal on April 28, 2004, 05:30:20 PM: Quote from: "Crome"
So everyhting that gets downloaded from the windowsupdate site gets stored on the server's hard drive and stays there forever? Is this cache purgeable? Where are these files located?

Sorry to be such a bug but I always like to know what things are doing on the system... :roll:

I'd like to know this as well. Also, how do the Windows machines know to point to this for updates? The main reason I got interested in SME Server was to do Windows updates from a local box.

I've installed the rpms, but I don't see any documentation on how to operate or configure it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: PhilV on April 29, 2004, 01:11:14 AM: Anyone able to help out here?
Title: windows update cache
Post by: patrick on April 29, 2004, 04:34:39 PM: Hi there all.

I can answer a few questions:

How do the clients know to point to the server?
- you still run windows update as usual, just that when you go to download the updates the server knows to check the local cache (in /var/cache/updates or something - use "locate windows" at a prompt to find it) before looking at the windows update site.

I have used this system for a long time now and have 300 computers all using this with the updates only ever being downloaded from the internet once.

elSpike out.
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Anonymous on April 29, 2004, 05:58:26 PM: Do you ever delete the windows cache section? How big has yours got? (so to speak!)
Title: windows update cache
Post by: patrick on May 06, 2004, 11:52:13 AM: No i haven't deleted it, mine is currently sitting at 3.8g with all the various windows flavours updates in there.
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: boringgit on May 09, 2004, 10:39:02 PM: I use SUS running on a W2k3 box at work, of course this is only available on a Win2k or 2k3 server... (This demonstrating M$'s commitment to security? :-? )

OK, SUS allows you to approve updates prior to deployment.. SME can't do this, and I am a lazy admin, so I just tick them all anyway.

What SUS does allow is the ability to approve updated versions of patches (or to approve updates to existing patches automatically). Will this cache more recent versions, or continue to dish out old versions of patches?
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: haj on May 27, 2004, 01:33:12 AM: Quote from: "ergozd"
Check Nightpirits e-smith-windowsupdate_cache contrib at

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nightspirit/e-smith-windowsupdate_cache/

Good luck, Ergin

Doesn't work on sme 6 ...

/opt/windowsupdate_cache stays empty
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: PhilV on May 27, 2004, 05:43:58 PM: Is this correct? If so could be a fairly major issue!
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: haj on June 28, 2004, 03:18:31 AM: Quote from: "PhilV"
Is this correct? If so could be a fairly major issue!

Yes it is. It also crashed squid if squidGuard is installed (squid exit with status 6) and workstation on the network have difficulties to novigate on internet (page not found, images aren't displayed etc)
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: tdbsoft on July 01, 2004, 07:21:22 PM: Quote from: "haj"
Quote from: "ergozd"
Check Nightpirits e-smith-windowsupdate_cache contrib at

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nightspirit/e-smith-windowsupdate_cache/

Good luck, Ergin

Doesn't work on sme 6 ...

/opt/windowsupdate_cache stays empty

I have tried on SME 6.0.1 and all seems to work fine have tested with win98 and w2k both Ok. This is great addin and will save a bundle of time.
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: haj on July 02, 2004, 05:18:14 AM: Quote from: "tdbsoft"

I have tried on SME 6.0.1 and all seems to work fine have tested with win98 and w2k both Ok. This is great addin and will save a bundle of time.

Still don't work here... Maybe because I use french windows update site:
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/fr/default.asp

???????
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Title: Glazer & the Buccaneers
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Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Denbert on July 10, 2004, 07:51:14 PM: Installed SME 6.0.1 and Windows Update Cache on a brand new test machine - Works great - Nice job :-D
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: Denbert on July 13, 2004, 07:48:36 AM: Hi again,

The admin mailbox is now reciving this mail:
-----------------------------------------------------
/etc/cron.daily/check_store:

check error - probably no last-modified header http://www.microsoft.com/security/controls/Sasser/20/SassCln.CAB
/opt/windowsupdate_cache/microsoft.com/security/controls/Sasser/20/SassCln.CAB

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Connection: Close
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1; URL=/security/controls/Sas ser/20/SassCln.CAB"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"> </HEAD></HTML>
------------------------------------------------------

Any suggestions?
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: jmartin on August 02, 2004, 10:11:29 PM: Quote from: "haj"

Yes it is. It also crashed squid if squidGuard is installed (squid exit with status 6) and workstation on the network have difficulties to novigate on internet (page not found, images aren't displayed etc)

I had the same problems browsing the web after installing. I'm using squidGuard and SME 6.0.1
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: NiGhTsPiRiT on August 03, 2004, 05:00:23 PM: Quote from: "jmartin"
Quote from: "haj"

Yes it is. It also crashed squid if squidGuard is installed (squid exit with status 6) and workstation on the network have difficulties to novigate on internet (page not found, images aren't displayed etc)

I had the same problems browsing the web after installing. I'm using squidGuard and SME 6.0.1

I will make a note of this in the ReadMe and check it out later on
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: jmartin on August 03, 2004, 08:08:52 PM: Thanks. This contrib will be a big help here once that issue gets solved. Let me know when you need someone to test it out.
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: haj on October 18, 2004, 07:30:31 AM: Quote from: "PhilV"
Is this correct? If so could be a fairly major issue!

Hello,

I think windowsUpdates caching is done on analysing URLs.

Here we speak french so we use french version of windowsUpdate ;) Maybe URLs are different and so the programm doesn't recognize them ....

What does think the author ?

Cheers
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: girkers on October 29, 2004, 09:07:55 AM: How do I make my XP machine use the SME server first before going to the net?
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: funkusmunkus on October 29, 2004, 09:29:06 AM: Quote
How do I make my XP machine use the SME server first before going to the net?

well first of all install the NiGhTsPiRiT contrib and then get IE to use the SME as a proxy, and that's it.
next time you download an update it will be stored, then start the same update on another machine, and you'll notice the speed difference.
it work's really well here at my work, and we have about 20 users.

hope that helps
cheers
Title: Can SME administer Windows Updates?
Post by: girkers on October 29, 2004, 10:04:51 AM: I already use SME as my proxy, so that is great it will work well.

I will have to test it to see how it goes.

Thanks