Carl said:
Hi,.over xmas I will be setting up a wireless home network, On the main
machine which runs XP Home, has Sophos Installed and Remote Update. this
is the main machine
The other machine is xp pro.
How can i make the main machine update the other machine e.g. CID's
Carl,
Have a look trough the help files on the CD-ROM or at the Sophos site. I've
seen explanation on how to do that. Does your main machine run 24/7? If so
the other(s) might get their data from the main machine, e.g. the monthly
updates. You'll also need to keep the IDE files up-to-date. I wrote a batch
file to automate that, I'll include it below and assume it's
self-explanatory. It's slightly modified from a version I posted on these
newsgroups some time ago.
Hope this helps...
Paul.
//begin of SophosGET.BAT
@echo off
:: SophosGET.bat
:: Written by Paul Joosten email (e-mail address removed)
:: Any comments or questions on this batchfile are welcome.
:: SophosGET.bat gets you the latest .IDE files from Sophos,
:: only when a working internet connection exists and unpacks
:: any new virus IDEntity information files it finds.
:: This will help you to keep Sophos completely up-to-date.
:: If invoked from Taskmanager with minimised GUI window
:: this will run automatically without the user noticing
:: anything (much). This batchfile assumes you have SGET.exe
:: and PKUNZIP.exe in the Sophos program directory or
:: somewhere in the PATH variable. SGET can be found on the
:: Sophos CD-ROM and is described on their website.
:: PKUNZIP can be found on many places on the internet.
:: Good luck in the battle against viruses!
:: Change the path to the Sophos program directory
C:
cd \Progra~1\Sophos~1
:: check_if_connected
ping -n 1 213.86.172.147 |find "Host unreachable" >nul
:: This is the IP-nummer of
www.sophos.com, the text between
:: "" might have to be adapted to your operating system.
if not errorlevel 1 goto end ::modem not connected.
if errorlevel 1 goto connected
:connected
if exist ides.zip del ides.zip
SGET
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip
:: if update downloaded successfully remove obsolete IDE's
if exist ides.zip del *.ide
pkunzip ides.zip
:end
//end of SophosGET.BAT
