Windows

• Download the executable “exe” file for the client processor architecture you will use, located at https://repo.saltstack.com/#windows

• Run MSDOS command prompt with Administrator privilege by clicking right button.

• After switching to the directory where you downloaded the file with the cd command,

Salt-Minion-3000.3-Py2-AMD64-Setup.exe /S /master=yoursaltmaster/minion-name=yourminionname

start the installation with the command.

In the yoursaltmaster section, type the IP address or network name of the SambaBox server.

In yourminionname, type your client’s name.

When the installation is finished

• Open the minion file in the salt/conf directory in the installation path with a text editor and change the #multiprocessing: True line to multiprocessing: False.

• Run the MSDOS command prompt with Administrator privilege by clicking right-click. Click on the MSDOS command prompt window. After changing to the directory where you downloaded the file with the cd command,

net stop salt-minion
net start salt-minion

run the commands in order.