Sophos Anti-Virus SBE: installing to computers on the network manually
In most cases, Sophos
Sophos
What to do
To obtain a list of computers that need to be installed manually, in the Sophos Control Center:
- Click 'Protect new computers'.
- Click 'Next', and enter the username and password of the account you use for accessing the Sophos Control Center.
- Click 'Next'. This will display a list of computers that can be protected automatically.
- Click 'Next'. This will display a list of computers that must be protected manually.
- You can choose to print or save this list.
Windows computers
At the computer to be installed,
- browse to \\<servername>\Sophos\ES9X on the Sophos
Anti-Virus SBE server - double-click 'setup.exe'.
Do not manually install computers from any other copy of setup.exe on your server. Such installations will not be correctly configured.
The address above is for Windows 98/Me. On Windows 2000/XP/2003 the address will be \\<servername>\SOPHOS\SAVSCFXP.< P>
Mac OS X computers
At the computer to be installed,
- mount the Sophos share point (by default, smb://<servername>/Sophos)
- browse to the ESOSX folder
- run the file 'Sophos
Anti-Virus .mpkg' - when asked, enter an administrator username and password
- install Sophos
Anti-Virus .
If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.
- Article ID: 10476
- Created: 10 Mar 2004
- Last updated: 3 Oct 2008
