Installing a font remotely over a network?

[iamwiz82]

Is it possible? I'd rather not have to walk to each machine individually. Is there some command I can run via SMS?

 

[meltdown75]

Can you access their directories? If so, wouldn't it just be as easy as placing the .ttf / .fon files in the proper directory? ie. \WinNT\Fonts? Just a wild guess, I don't know what SMS is.

edit: unless it's Sega Master System, and I highly doubt that. 🙂

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
Can you access their directories? If so, wouldn't it just be as easy as placing the .ttf / .fon files in the proper directory? ie. \WinNT\Fonts? Just a wild guess, I don't know what SMS is.

edit: unless it's Sega Master System, and I highly doubt that. 🙂

Well, when you place a font in a local machine it installs it (registry key?), but when you copy it to a remote machine it just copies the file, it doesn't actually install it.

SMS is Systems Management Server. A way of running installations on all the machines remotely.

 

[meltdown75]

How about sending them all an email with the font file as an attachment with the directions on how to install it?

Recipe for disaster? Or recipe for more walking then you were trying to avoid in the first place? 🙂

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
How about sending them all an email with the font file as an attachment with the directions on how to install it?

Recipe for disaster? Or recipe for more walking then you were trying to avoid in the first place? 🙂

I believe admin rights are needed, or power user, at the ery least. That would be a headache, to say the least 😛