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Badmin

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Registered: 2009-04-02

Posts: 3

silent install

Hi there.

We want to use NetSetManPro in our domain and use a silent installation.
The deployment is no problem but the customization of the ini-file is complicated.
Can anyone please tell me how to configure the "AdapterID={42E9A180-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}" ?
Is there a possibility to set the value by script or something else?

Thanks!

NetSetMan Support

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: silent install

Well, this CLSID (or in this case called NetCfgInstanceId) is unique for each network adaper and therefor can't be copied from one pc to another.

If you would like to retrieve this value by a script you could try going through all subkeys of the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Each subkey (0000, 0001, ...) contains AdapterID with the name NetCfgInstanceId. However, you will need some fixed value to compare, so you know which subkey is the correct one. If all the network adapters in your network are the same hardware you could compare Providername, DriverDesc, DriverVersion, ...

Alternatively if you want to retrieve the AdapterID by the adapter name (which however can be changed by every user) you could go through these registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\[ ID you search for ]\Connection -> Name

I hope that helps a bit...

Badmin

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Registered: 2009-04-02

Posts: 3

Re: silent install

Thanks for your answer.
The solution is way to complicated. We're going to install the software on the clients and afterwards configure it manually.

Maybe a suggestion for further versions

Badmin

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Registered: 2009-04-02

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Re: silent install

One more question about softwaredeployment.
When I install NetSetManPro on client I have configure the lic-file for the registration.
When i install my softwarepackage on another computer, the serialnumber has to be reentered.
Is there a way to avoid this?

NetSetMan Support

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: silent install

Unfortunately this is necessary to avoid piracy. If the created license file could be copied from one machine to another, everybody who has access to the computer could take the license file for own use. To make this a little bit easier all fields except for the serial number will be filled out already. You will need to enter the serial once at each workstation where you install NetSetMan Pro.

Concerning the AdapterID: In one of the next versions NetSetMan will set the ID automatically if the new system has a network adapter with exactly the same name. This will require all the systems to have the same name for the network adapter (like "LAN") but I don't see another way to handle this automatically.