Installation Tips for Windows 9x

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Galileo Setup and Installation Tips for Windows 9x remote administration

Galileo COMMANDCentral and Command AntiVirus 4.90 are compatible with Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98. The same functionality as COMMANDCentral 4.75 exists in the new release. However, to take advantage of Galileo's advanced features, you must configure the Windows 9x clients to support that functionality.

* If you do not want to configure your workstations as described below, you can continue to use other methods of pushing clients as you always have (login scripts, TotalCOMMAND, etc).

This guide is intended for Network Administrators and technical staff, it is not end-user documentation.

If you are deploying to 9x machines, regardless of whether the workstations log in to a Netware or Windows server, you must perform the following:

Set Network Neighborhood properties at the workstation:

TCP/IP protocol should be installed (WMI is using RPC to connect to the remote machines, and RPC uses TCP/IP)

File sharing must be enabled, My Network properties, File and Print Sharing, 'I want to give others access to my files' must be checked.

Identification tab: The machine must be made part of domain or workgroup

Access control tab: User level access control must be set

After the user level access control is set and active the machine should be accessible for remote administration.

Go to 'Control Panel - Passwords - Remote administration' tab: The remote administration should be checked and the Domain Admins should be automatically granted permissions for remote administration. If the client pushes as different user, this user must be manually added to the list.

All other settings (WMI setup and DCOM setup) should be automatically set during CSAV pushing, users should not do anything special for this.

The easiest way to check if the 9x machine is prepared for remote administration is:

Make sure the user who pushes the software can see \\9Xmachinename\admin$ share from explorer.

Make sure the user who pushes can see the WMI components on the 9x machine (using the standard WMI tools - wbemtest.exe or CIM studio)

If you see the admin$ share, you should be able to push to this machine, if you see the WMI providers we should be able to query the machine for Infection/Protection report and run tasks.