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Introduction

Installing NSL through a User interface or a responsefile.ini provided by an administrator can be time consuming and a dependant activity. This article explains how to independently install NSL on a 64 bit machine without facing any UI hassles or without being dependent on administrator.

Description

NSL is now supported on 64 bit machines. In order to install NSL on your 64 bit machine, you have to follow a general procedure of either going through full UI option or installing in silent mode.

To install in full UI mode, you will have to go through the user interfaces and provide all the options relevant to you.

To install in silent mode, you will have to depend on the administrator to provide you with a responsefile.ini which contains all the configurations for installing NSL.

This article walks you through how to install NSL with a single click without going through the User interfaces and without being dependent on the administrator, yet providing a customized install for NSL matching your needs.

Steps:

1. Download a latest version of NSL and save it on your workstation
2. Open any text editor. (Notepad,Notepad++ etc)
3. Copy paste the text given here in a text file
   

   		INSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\
   		X_CACHEDIR=%APPDATA%
   		X_INSTALLTYPE=EDIR
   		PROTOCOLFOREDIR=LDAP
   		X_USEGPO=
   		IS_SECRETSTORE=
   		NMASCLIENT=
   		LDAPCREDASSOC= 
   		LDAPMODE=APP 
   		LDAPSERVERADDRESS=ldapserveraddress 
   		LDAPPORT=636 
   		PCPROX=
   		SW_INST=Yes 
   		X_SMARTCARD=No 
   		X_SMARTCARDLIB=
   		X_CSP= 
   		X_RUNATSTARTUP=Yes 
   		X_INSTALLADMIN=Yes 
   		X_INSTALLCITRIX=Yes 
   		DAS_INST=Yes 
   		LOCATIONFORXML=Local 
   		DASSERVER=
   		DASCONFIGOBJECT=
   		READERPORT=
   		CARDREADER= 
   		AIRID=
   		RETRIES= 
   		TREE=
   		SERVER=
   		SEQUENCE=
   		LDAPSERVER=
   		ALTERNATE1= 
   		ALTERNATE2=
   		
   		

4. Name and save the file as responsefile.ini.
5. Now you can modify this file as per your needs. (Details mentioned after the steps)
6. Either place this responsefile.ini in the same folder as Novell securelogin.msi and just double click the msi
7. Or use the command line as follows from the path where MSI is placed
   msiexec /i "Novell SecureLogin.msi" /qn PATHTOISS ="Absolute Path of the custom responsefile.ini"

To customize the install using the property value combination you can use the below mentioned link
http://www.novell.com/documentation/securelogin70/nsl70_installation_guide/?page=/documentation/securelogin70/nsl70_installation_guide/data/blcgk41.html

Table for property and their possible values to customize NSL installation:

Table 1

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Table 2

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Conclusion:

Using the above steps you will have the flexibilty of creating your own responsefile and also sharing the same with others. This approach works good if you are installing NSL on a 64 bit machine only. Use the same and have fun installing NSL with just a click.

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.