software update on a small network?

slinxy · 2 Dec 2007 at 09:21

Is there a way of getting one 10.5 install to look at another 10.5 for its software updates?

Currently I have 3 macs with clean installs of 10.5 on all, and theres about 500 megs of updates for each one of them. What I want to do is to update one of them, then tell the other machines to take its updates from the machine thats been updated; is this possible?

Thanks

slinxy · 2 Dec 2007 at 09:40

Ahhh...

There's a program called software update enabler that seems to do the trick, I'm still playing with it at the moment.

slinxy · 2 Dec 2007 at 11:23

I can't get it to work!! the network works fine, but when I enter the name or the ip address of the computer with the updates its states that its an invalid server.

is there a way of making the machine downloading the updates cache the updates on its hdd so all i have to do is copy the dmg across the network and run them?

slinxy · 2 Dec 2007 at 11:55

By the looks of it the only way to do it is to run a server version of X... its a shame that (as far as I'm aware off at the moment) it can't be done as more and more people are getting multiple macs and I seem to be always updating software at the moment on different machines... I will just download them in DMG files and run them onthe machines after...

slinxy · 12 Dec 2007 at 17:32

Going back to this... has anyone used the option in software update... update > install and keep packages? does this keep the dmg files.. I can't try it at the moment as mine are up to date...