[THIN] Re: Unattended DriveRemap

  • From: Jeremy Saunders <jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Rick Mack" <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:00:48 +0800




Thanks Rick. I'm trying your suggestion now. Interesting that it seems to
be stable when run from the users run key, but not from the machines run
key. I've asked Citrix if there is some way of logging what it's trying to
do.

Cheers,
Jeremy.



                                                                       
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Hi Jeremy,

We used to have mixed results with driveremap etc as well, until we changed
how the scripted build was implemented.

Basically what we do is use cmdlines.txt to load appropriate o.s. hotfixes,
and then GUIRUNONCE to run a series of linked scripts.

Where what we do differs a bit from standard procedure is that we use the
administrator's RUN key instead of runonce. eg we use guirunonce to run a
script that installs security hotfixes, and then call the following reg
file:
--------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"driveremap"="c:\\install\\scripts\\driveremap.cmd"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"AutoLogonCount"="1"
------------

After the reboot,
------------
@echo off
:: driveremap.cmd - remap server drives
:: go to the root of the PS4 CD
cd /d c:\install\citrix\ps4cd
:: remap server drives C: to M:, D: to N: etc
start /wait driveremap /u /drive:M /noreboot
:: set up the next batch file
cd /d c:\install\scripts
regedit -s mfinstall.reg
:: reboot the server
tsshutdn /reboot 60
:done
---------------

Note that FixSecurityDatabase.cmd has been copied to
$OEM$\$$\DE45CB9F_0220_442A_9564_D504809A542A.cmd already and is executed
by the mfinstall script.

After that we just call a series of reg files and scripts, and if
applications are part of the build using runonceex makes the build look
really neat.

Works 100% of the time, win2k SP4, win2k3 SP1 so far anyway. ;-)

regards,

Rick

Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
Level 2, 30 Little Cribb Street
Coronation Drive Office Park
Milton Qld 4064
tel: +61 7 32431847
fax: +61 7 32431992
rick.mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Sun 11/09/2005 9:08 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Unattended DriveRemap







Yeh...I'm going to try copying it locally using short file name and running
it from there.

Which part of the setup process are you running it from? (GUIRunOnce,
RunOnceEX, CMDLines.txt)

Don't get me wrong, we get it working flawlessly on one site (for one
customer), we then use the mechanism for another and it plays up!

Cheers,
Jeremy.




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Strange..
We are using an unattended drive remap as well and that has worked
flawlessly for our PS 4.0 installations.

Looks like we are using the same syntaxes
c:\addons\tools\drvremap /u /drive:M /dbscript:c:\addons\tools\drvfix.cmd
Disregard the shortened name of the .exe and .cmd files, they are the same
files included on the installation CD we are just a bit paranoid when it
comes to 8+ character  filenames. =)
The only difference I can notice is that we are copying the remap program
and drvfix.cmd to the local disk before running them as part of an remote
deployment job, don't know if that makes any difference.

Regards,

Niclas Nordin
Technical specialist
BITS DATA i Södertälje AB

Jeremy Saunders <jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:




 Hi All,

 We have a fully unattended server build process which we use for all our
 customers. We try not to build servers manually. Anyway, we always have
 trouble making the driveremap.exe process reliable enough. Even with the
 newer driveremap executable from PS4. It mostly just hangs after
 completing
 the physical drive remap, but before copying the FixSecurityDatabase.cmd
 to
 %WinDir% and naming it DE45CB9F_0220_442A_9564_D504809A542A.cmd. We are
 running it from the RunOnceEX key, but I have also tried it from the
 GUIRunOnce. If I run the command manually, it always works without
 failure.

 The command line I'm using is...

 S:\Citrix\PS4\DriveRemap.exe /u /drive:U
 /dbscript:S:\Citrix\PS4\Support\Install\FixSecurityDatabase.cmd

 Note: S: drive is a mapped drive to the software.

 To this point, Citrix support h as not been a great help, and I was just
 wondering if anyone else is or was having the same issues and what they
 may
 have done to address it. Because it's been doing my head in for a couple
 of
 days now.

 Cheers.

 Kind regards,



 Jeremy Saunders
 Senior Technical Specialist

 ceruleanTM
 an IBM Australia Company
 formerly known as Logicalis

 Level 2, 1060 Hay Street
 West Perth  WA  6005
 AUSTRALIA

 Visit us at
 http://www.cerulean.com.au/

 P:  +61 8 9261 8412 F:  +61 8 9261 8536
 M:  TBA E-mail:
 Jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx











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