One day, it would be nice to have a standard operating environment for UCC clubroom machines. Currently the state of them could be described as varying degrees of broken, partly due to having no defined procedure for setting them up. The purpose of this page is to brainstorm what this procedure should be.

Steps marked with require a wheel member, anything else can be done by a winadmin.

Windows Profiles

Please see WindowsProfiles for more information on how these work / how you should manage them.

Windows 7

Steps to do before/during installation

• Add forward and reverse DNS entries for the machine. Not essential for setup

• Add the machine to DHCP. Not essential for setup

• Add the machine template to Samba. As root on Mylah, run /home/wheel/bin/ucc-addwinpc computername. <!> no longer necessary, automagically created

During/after installation

• Install Win7 Pro, not the home edition, or you won't be able to add it to the domain
• Enable the Administrator account and set a password, nuke the user you created during install
  • Handy hint: Instead of logging in with LOCALMACHINENAME\Administrator, log in with .\Administrator

• Install F-Prot antivirus, You will need a wheel member to give you the registration key

• Run the registry hack from http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 - you won't be able to add the machine to the domain without doing this)

• Configure it to be part of the domain 'UCCDOMAIN'. (Control Panel, System, Advanced System Settings, Computer Name) Ignore the error message

  • Once it's added to the domain, make sure you click on 'more' and correct the domain name suffix to ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
• Install and configure wpkg.
  • The default profile is Win7x86, for Win7x64 machines you will need to make an entry in /wpkg/hosts.xml. Both the client installer and the config files will be in //Mylah/wpkg
  • Import settings using the "import settings" button from //Mylah/wpkg/settings.xml

  • Go into service management and change the WPKG Service startup type to Automatic (Delayed Start) This step is essential, wpkg will not work without it

  • Restart the computer
• Install device drivers (graphics and sound most importantly).
• Run the Windows Experience Index test (Control Panel, Performance Information and Tools)
• Set up printing.
• Add Winadmins to computer administrators.
• Add static route for 130.95.13.0/26: at a command prompt, type

route add -p 130.95.13.0 MASK 255.255.255.192 130.95.13.65

• This prevents a snap connection from trying to steal the default route to users home directories.

Software to install

Software in this list should either be free to download and install, or something that the UCC has a license for. Some preference is given to software which is easily deployed with WPKG.

• CD Burning Software: InfraRecorder (isorecorder is no longer needed, as infrarecorder can do images)

• VLC

• Daemon Tools (v3.46 was the last release before it was bundled with spyware, see http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=Download&id=70)

• OCS inventory
• GIMP
• Adobe reader
• GIMP

Installed automatically via WPKG

• Putty

• OpenOffice

• Firefox
• Security policy to hide last logged in user

• WinSCP

Not installed via WPKG

• WolfET
• Steam

Windows XP

Steps to do before/during installation

• Add forward and reverse DNS entries for the machine. Not essential for setup

• Add the machine to DHCP. Not essential for setup

• Add the machine template to Samba. As root on Mylah, run /home/wheel/bin/ucc-addwinpc computername.

During/after installation

• Install Windows XP SP3 and configure it to be part of the domain 'UCCDOMAIN'.
• Install device drivers (graphics and sound most importantly).
• Set up printing.
• Add Winadmins to computer administrators.

• Configure WPKG. Install WPKG Client 1.3.9.msi, and load settings.xml using 'import settings', both in //mylah/wpkg

  • As winxp is no longer the default profile, you will need to edit /wpkg/hosts.xml and make an entry for the machine
• Turn Windows Updates on to fully-automatic.
• Add static route for 130.95.13.0/26: at a command prompt, type

route add -p 130.95.13.0 MASK 255.255.255.192 130.95.13.65

Software to install

Software in this list should either be free to download and install, or something that the UCC has a license for. Some preference is given to software which is easily deployed with WPKG.

• OpenOffice

• Media Player 11

• CD Burning Software such as? possibilities include http://www.deepburner.com/ and http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

• F-Prot Antivirus \\musundo\fprot\ contains installers (use the MSI packages) and license codes in licenses.txt. You will need a handy wheel member to open licences.txt for you.
• VLC

• Daemon Tools (v3.46 was the last release before it was bundled with spyware, see http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=Download&id=70)

• Windows Live messenger
• Steam
• Audacity
• Google Talk
• irfanview (and the plugin that knows about jpeg orientation jfif tags)
• winscp
• DirectX 9 runtime
• Notepad++

What about...

• ActiveState ActivePython and/or ActivePerl

• Eclipse? Massive but apparently Java programmers love it

• NetBeans? Not nearly as massive (but still quite large)

• Komodo Edit, a rather nice lightweight programmers' editor
• gVim, the logical alternative to the above
• TortoiseSVN

• Cygwin I vote no, it's horrible [DAA]

• sequoiaview?
• Hardware design tools like ..
• SwitcherCADIII (free download with very active support list)
• Ultium Designer (on at least one machine) or Free (limited) version of Eagle

• Pushing the UCC CA out over WPKG? http://wpkg.org/SSL_CA_Install

• Inkscape
• The GIMP

Installed automatically via WPKG

• Java Runtime Environment
• Firefox 3
• Flash player

• PuTTY (also add the binary directory to %PATH% [RVS] - not done yet)

• Xming
• GTK+ 2.14
• 7zip

• FileZilla

• Thunderbird

• ISORecorder

• Ario (MPD client: http://ario-player.sourceforge.net/)

• BZFlag
• Adobe Reader 9

• InfraRecorder

Linux machines

• Add a root user and nuke the initial unprivileged user
• Change sources.list to use UWA's mirror %s/au.archive.ubuntu.com/mirrors.uwa.edu.au\/ubuntu/
• Install packages: nfs-common zsh ncurses-term vim screen
• Set up NFS:
  • Add the machine to DNS if it isn't there already
  • Add the ethernet (MAC) address to madako's /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf if it isn't there already
  • Add the machine to the 'sharemgr share' output on Musundo
  • Add the fstab line (copy off martello or something)
  • mount -a and hope

• Set up LDAP

• Ensure nsswitch.conf uses ldap for groups, passwd, and services - the latter is not done by default on most configurations.
• Install dispense: copy /usr/local/bin/dispense, /usr/local/lib/libucc.so and /usr/share/man/man1/dispense.1.gz off a machine with a similar architecture
• Add the UCC root SSH keys: add the hostname to /home/wheel/bin/uccroot/push.sh, then run that script.
• Install the UCC motd system on machines which mount /home: add the following line to /etc/inetd.conf:

motda   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /home/wheel/bin/motd.update.sh motda

• Other packages to install if available and sufficient storage space:
  • build-essential
  • cvs
  • subversion
  • sun-java6-jdk or openjdk-6-jdk
  • susv2
  • susv3
  • bzflag

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