Re: [Bacula-users] Start / restart the windows bacula client remotely

[James H. <jam...@be...>]

> Hi folks.
> 
> I'm rolling out my new Bacula network and I'm working on automating the
> config process.
> 
> I already have a script on my Linux server using smbclient to pull the bacula-
> fd.conf from the windows client, extract the password, and then configure
> the client in bacula-dir.conf.
> 
> Sometimes, when the clients are installed, it doesn't set up the local monitor
> entry, leaving the default values for the name and password. The Bacual
> client then fails to start.
> 
> As part of my script above, I fix the bacula-fd.conf and push it back to the
> windows client.
> 
> Does anyone know how once I've done this I can start the service on the
> Windows client from my Linux server?
> 

winexe can do this (in that it can do pretty much anything) http://sourceforge.net/projects/winexe/

If you find a more elegent solution please do post it. With winexe you would execute something like "net start bacula-fd" to start the service, but getting success or failure from that operation makes it a bit messy.

James