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scripted removal of Novell 4.8x client

Has anyone ever successfully scripted this? I have been able to remove the functionality of the client, but not fully remove the appearance of the Novell client in the properties dialogue box of the network card.


Thanks in advance

Craig --<>.

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Posted by: kkbass 19 years ago
Second Degree Green Belt
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yes, did you check out the nwclient install package? there is info there on unattended UNinstall.

http://itninja.com/link/automatic-client-upgrade-howto-right-from-novell
Posted by: craig16229 19 years ago
Third Degree Brown Belt
0
Thanks, that's huge. I don't know why, but I had not even thought to look there. I wrote the batch file and it tested perfectly on XP and W2K.

craig --<>.
Posted by: tango_chuck 19 years ago
Yellow Belt
0
Criag,

Do you think you could send me a copy of those batch files? I have to remove Novell from 8,000 workstations. If I can do it with a script that would be cool.

TC
MCSE
Posted by: craig16229 19 years ago
Third Degree Brown Belt
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tango_chuck,

Here is the link to the Novell tid: http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10070072.htm

Here is the batch file I am using for XP:

@echo off
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NetWare\Nwmigw2k\setupw2k.exe /u ms_nwspx
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NetWare\Nwmigw2k\setupw2k.exe /u ms_nwnb
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NetWare\Nwmigw2k\setupw2k.exe /u ms_nwipx
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NetWare\Nwmigw2k\setupw2k.exe /u nw_wm
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NetWare\Nwmigw2k\setupw2k.exe /u nw_ndps
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NetWare\Nwmigw2k\setupw2k.exe /u nw_nwfs
cls
exit

The path is, of course, c:\winnt if the workstation is W2K.

One additional note: the uninstall leaves behind c:\[windows folder]\system32\NetWare. NWtray.exe remains running after the uninstall, and it uses two .dll's in that folder. Therefore, a reboot is necessary to delete the folder. I have not been able to use taskkill to kill the nwtray.exe process by name or pid, or figure out a way to avoid the reboot to get rid of it.

craig --<>.
Posted by: tango_chuck 19 years ago
Yellow Belt
0
Thanks Craig,

Looks like it works great. Would you happen to have a script for NT?

TC
Posted by: tango_chuck 19 years ago
Yellow Belt
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Thanks guys,

The scripts work great in my environment for vs 4.8x on W2K but blue screens the hell out of NT vs 4.7x. Any thoughts? I have tried to manipulate the UNC32 script, tried changing the W2K/XP scripts but all attempts have failed. I want to avoid using AutoIt. I am about to write manual removal docs to remove it.

TC
Posted by: photozz 19 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
0
One more thing you can try,
http://www.geocities.com/bsquaredconsulting/
under complete aplications, there is a novell client uninstaller. One EXE takes out most nwclient versions, including CSNW setups.
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