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October 31, 2001 at 07:50 AM
ravenous

Auto installing

by ravenous . Updated 23 years, 9 months ago

I have recently taken over the task of managing the RAS connections of many clients accross Canada. This intails setting up the RAS connection, installing a Citrix program and setting up a Citrix connection.
I have created an ‘.ins’ file that automatically installs the RAS connection. I have software for the Citrix program, that installs fairly automatically. Now I would like to be able to have the Citrix connection be created automatically.
When you create a connection manually, it creates files in:
C:\%windir%\Profiles\\Application Data\ICAClient
I can easily create a batch file that will copy those files to the appropriate location, except for the fact that I do not know how to tell the system what the name of the directory is… (or to use the current user)

I have also been unable to have the ‘ins’ file for the RAS install from a batch file.

What I would like to be able to do is:
1) Have one batch file that installs the RAS by using the ‘.ins’ file.
2) Have it then automatically run the setup.exe that installs the Citrix program.
3) Copy the files for the citrix connection to the appropriate directory (and create the directory if necessary)
4) Install any necessary registry keys/values.

Any help is appreciated!

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