[chef] Installing a package from a password-protected UNC share

[Andrea Campi < >]

Ohai Chefs,

I'm seeking help from those of you who have more Windows-fu than I.

I need to install some software from a Windows share.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to specify username and password in a UNC path and give that to either the windows_service or remote_file resource. Or is there?

Failing that, we tried something like this:

execute "mount share #{drive}" do

  command "net use #{drive}: #{path} /user:#{username} #{password} /persistent:No"

end

windows_package "Symantec Anti-Virus" do

  source "#{drive}:\\#{node['symantec-antivirus']['installer']['arch_file']}"

  options "/qn ALLUSERS=1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress"

  action :install

end

execute "unmount share #{drive}" do

  command "net use /d #{drive}:"

end

This sucks in many ways (deciding which drive letter to use is tricky, any failure will leave mapped drives around, …).

Worse, it doesn't work when chef-client is run a service!

STDERR: System error 1312 has occurred.

A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.

Googling about this stuff, it seems there is a way around this error by using a PSEXEC.EXE, but I would rather avoid that is possible.

Thoughts?

Andrea