[hobbit] Hobbit and Windows Server 2008

[Geoff Hallford]

Okay, thanks. I wasn't making the change in the Wow6432Node key but just the
basic Software/BBWin. I will give that a try on the next client. Is that
documented anywhere in BBWin that I missed?

Thanks.


'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dugan, Darin D [EIT]
<dddugan at iastate.edu>wrote:

>  For completeness, here is the BBWin portion of my setup notes:
>
>
>
> Install BBWin:
> msiexec /i BBWin_0.12.msi /passive /log bbwin-install.log
> reg add HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\BBWin /v "hostname" /d
> "%COMPUTERNAME%.dept.domain.tld" /f
> then copy/create an appropriate bbwin.cfg, any external scripts, etc
> net start BBWin
>
>
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>
> *From:* Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:dddugan at iastate.edu]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2009 9:19 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] Hobbit and Windows Server 2008
>
>
>
> Say what? I have BBWin 0.12 working on several Windows Server 2008
> Enterprise x64 machines, both Full and Server Core.
>
>
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>
> *From:* Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2009 8:45 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Hobbit and Windows Server 2008
>
>
>
> Except 64-bit doesn't work, it installs except the reg keys, and even if
> you manually create the reg keys to get the hostname, it will not use them.
> So if you have a host with FQDN reporting in. It doesn't work.
>
> This is the same for Win 2003 64-bit though. You need to use the old free
> bigbrother client for that BBNT.
>
> 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Gavin Leonard <gleonard at progrexion.com>
> wrote:
>
> I can attest to this..as long as you install it with administrator privs in
> server 2008 it works great.
>
> -Gavin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:40 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit and Windows Server 2008
>
> On Thursday 15 January 2009, David W Daniels/AC/VCU wrote:
> > I would like to know if there is a current or forthcoming hobbit client
> > for Windows Server 2008 (32bit & 64 bit).
> There is none.  But there is bbwin:
> http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/
>
> This is compatible with Hobbit/Xymon and BigBrother.
>
>
> Stef
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