Very Computer

Hi All,

has anyone experienced a problem where an SMS Installer executable
configured to reboot a client machine using RESTART W, S or E... fails to
restart when submitted to Windows 95 machines through SMS as a workstations
job. The shutdown process starts, but PCM won't close (it hangs basically).
If I End Task on PCM then the restart process completes successfully.

I have my Destination Platforms set for Win16/Win32, the Suppress Reboot
Message option is selected, the /S switch is being used for the package
command-line.

Also, if I run the installer created EXE manually from the package
directory on the distribution server it restarts appropriately and if I
open PCM and then run the EXE from the package directory manually it will
close the PCMWIN16 window and restart properly. I only have this problem if
I run the executable via PCMWIN16.

Any thoughts???

Thanks in advance.

Don't attempt any silent background install with a reboot using the RESTART
environment variable. I also did this and had the installation 'hang' and
subsequently reinstall the package every time the user logged back in
because the PCM service kept getting 'killed' by the restart command before
it could tell the server it was done.

What I've been told by a MS rep. was to bundle the executable in a batch
file running the SHUTDOWN utility last.

Another thing I noticed was SMS installer doesn't check to see if a text
string already exists before appending it to the system path (like the Help
screen said it does), the application I had that kept re-installing also
kept adding its path string again and again and ....

Enjoy!
Karl

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