[quote=""]6.1.5 Autoupdate clients
If this is checked the server will automatically look for new UrBackup client versions. If there is a new version it will download it from the Internet and send it to its clients. The UrBackup client interface will ask the user to install the new client version. The installer is protected by a digital signature so malfeasance is not possible. Default: Checked.[/quote]
I have two suggestions:
make a silent install on clients with the credentials the server service is running under or with credentials you can provide on server side. In my installation, this is a account specially for client backups, that has admin permissions on any client and access to the backup share to do all backups. So the users don´t get bugged with installation of a program they maybe never heard of
setting to automatically search for new UrBackup client either from internet or from UrBackup server (directory). So a administrator can manually test on some client before rolling out on all clients
A roll back option for client also would be nice if there is a major bug and problem finding by you and re-release lasts a few days/weeks. But this maybe would be a bigger thing I think.
as I already wrote at thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=120 silent automatic updates do not work at my network.
Exemplary client log:
Errors 08.10.12 07:44 Sending settings to client failed
Errors 08.10.12 07:44 Timeout: Sending settings to client failed
Errors 08.10.12 07:44 Error in update: ERR
Errors 08.10.12 07:44 Timeout: In client update
As the account the server runs with has no internet permission, you already wrote I have to manually download all files from http://update1.urbackup.org/ and place them into C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer\urbackup . I think that is good to know because this way I have control over the versions running Anyway there must be another problem. Maybe the user sitting in front of the client has to have admin or install rights? Of course, my users have NOT.
My suggestion is to trigger the update from the server (my server account has domain admin rights, one could use anything like psexec for that) or to set credentials for update installs in server settings. But the credentials would have to get encrypted to stay secure.
[quote=“fossy777”]Maybe the user sitting in front of the client has to have admin or install rights?[/quote]Is this the case? Is the update on client running under the user sitting infront of the display?
As far as I can see the Error occurs even if it works. I’ll look into that.
I silently autoupdated and had an issue myself: I simply start the update process as SYSTEM user.
The tray icon is then started as system user afterwards, so the user does not see it anymore. This
is kind of an annoying problem, because the Installer has no build-in stuff to handle that case, I’ll have
to write a plugin.
Because it runs as SYSTEM there should not be any permission issues. You could also have a version that
does not have silent update yet. I have since updated the files, so if you still have the old files you could
test with the new ones.