From: francisco.hen...@grupoaldebaran.com
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:17:08 +0200
Subject: [wpkg-users] windos vista or windows 7 support
Hi :
I'm using an user with administration privileges, when I try to install your
1.3.9 client (the msi for 32 bits) I
I believe Windows establishes the wireless connection only at login. This is
because with some types of wireless authentication (Enterprise/RADIUS-based),
the Windows user name and password actually doubles as wireless user name and
password.
Wrong, it should set it up before login -
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:21:35 -0500
From: brine...@physics.unc.edu
To: subscript...@kkeane.com
CC: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] The network path was not found. - Windows 7,
wireless connection.
This does not seem to be true for Windows XP. I have not tested this
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:33:20 +
From: jetsho...@o2.co.uk
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] Will WPKG uninstall software it did not install?
Will wpkg uninstall software it did not install, if said software is
installed on the computer, has an entry in
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:12:09 +0100
From: christian.frei...@googlemail.com
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] You must have an administrative privilege to run this tool
Hi There,
when trying to install the WPKG Client under Windows 7 x64 I got this error:
You must have
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:47:24 +0100
From: man...@wpkg.org
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] WPKG with winexe (as an alternative to WPKG Client)
As we all know, WPKG Client does not work reliably on some hardware
configurations and generally broke when SP3 was
I've gone to install WPKG onto a Win7 Pro 32-bit laptop as an administrative
level user, but the install cancels and tells me I must have administrative
priviledges to install the application?
I have UAC turned off, and the user is most definitely an admin level user, am
I missing
Hello all,
in my organisation, I encounter a strange problem on PCs where MS Office
2000 is installed.
Everytime WPKG starts a MSI installation, it triggers an update of Office.
There is no problem on PCs without MS Office 2000 or with other versions
of MS Office.
Installing MSI
Hi,
Has anyone got the package xml for installing Service Pack 2 for Vista?
I've had a look around Google with no joy so far.
Thanks,
Chris
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From: subscript...@kkeane.com
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:50:11 -0800
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run
First, one more pitfall warning: regardless of what you do, remember that
WPKG will also *UNINSTALL* software if it has a
From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org
[mailto:wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Wilcox
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:12 AM
To: wpkg
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Just running one package at each run
First, one more pitfall warning: regardless of what you
I've a need for some sort of mechanism to just deploy one package at a time
at each run of wpkg.js.
Some packages (Anti-virus, service packs etc) can take a long time to
install and I'd like to have WPKG just do one of these packages on one run
of wpkg.js (e.g. one package the 1st time
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:27:01 +0100
From: man...@wpkg.org
To: luca_mangane...@comune.trento.it
CC: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] How to not show WPKGMessage?
luca_mangane...@comune.trento.it wrote:
Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org scritti il 28/10/2009 15.01.36
On 10/26/2009 08:06 AM, Chris Wilcox wrote:
Hi,
I'm reviewing my plugin versions and after a previous e-mail to the
group I am looking at using the:
condition=versiongreaterorequal
setting in the package xml files to ensure that a current or later
version of a given plugin
Hi,
my organization is composed by many offices. The majority of them is on
LAN, but there are another connected via ADSL to the LAN.
So, you know that installing the 140MB OpenOffice 3.1 on ADSL is painfully
slow.
In all machines WPKG does the install/upgrade at shutdown.
A nice
Starting from the beginning again :)
I adminster several small school networks and use wpkg to deploy packages to
several machines if it is quicker to use wpkg than to go around all
computers and do a manual install.
I want to be able to test a new package out or a modified one on an
I have the following package xml for IE8 on Vista:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
packages
package id='IE8Vista' name='Internet Explorer 8 for Vista' revision='700'
priority='56' reboot='false'
!-- Microsoft Internet Explorer --
check type='uninstall' condition='exists'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I have a XP and vista client configured identically. When I run the
Test Settings option on the XP client 3 of 3 tests pass, executing as
defined user, connecting to share and trying to read wpkg.js file on the
share. The vista client fails
I've been thinking about WPKGs default behaviour (following from earlier
discussions) and I'd like to start a genuine discussion on changing its
current behaviour.
Currently, WPKG will attempt to remove an existing package from the local
compuer wpkg.xml file if it decides that an
Hi,
informatique src wrote:
* come up with some common rules for standardizing wpkg packages files
writing (naming scheme, versioning, path to executable...)
WPKG can be used in various different ways in various environments and is very
flexible. Imposing naming rules is quite
Hi,
My Question is: Can I provide software via wpkg depend of pc can see the
software package or not.
In this case I have only a simple configuration: software for all ;-)
But only few pc's can see the installation-package via ADS-Group-membership.
Now my admins can simple control
From: siwalt...@hotmail.com
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] Package Dependency
Hi again
I was asked to install MS PhotoStory at one school this afternoon and since
I have packages for this and Media Player 10 (which it needs installing
first) I thought I try out the
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:14:59 +0200
From: man...@wpkg.org
To: siwalt...@hotmail.com
CC: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Package Dependency
simplesi wrote:
Out of curiousity, whereabouts or which schools do you support? I've got
WPKG going in 13 now, it has
Hi,
Am Montag, 18. Mai 2009 08:23:22 schrieb simplesi:
When I'm changing my hosts/profiles files I sometimes end up not specfiying
a previously applied package and wpkg attempts to uninstall it.
I never have any uninstall commands in my packages and wpkg just seems to
think - Ok )
Or does it work but you can still login if you just move the wpkg window
or something??
It means WPKG Client works under Vista, but logon delay will not work.
-
In any case I would recommend running at
From: stefan.pe...@haidlmair.at
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:52:35 +0200
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Vista
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Chris Wilcox schrieb:
I have no experience with Vista, still no need to use it.
Best is to try on a test system
I can't recall if I asked this before, but it would be highly useful if I could
choose to display the WPKG interface until the package install(s) was complete
rather than specify a login delay
For a number of schools I support, it would prevent users being able to cancel
or stop any
From: man...@wpkg.org
To: not_rich_...@hotmail.com
CC: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Feature request - prevent logi until package
installs completed
Chris Wilcox schrieb:
I can't recall if I asked this before, but it would be highly useful if
I could choose
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Feature request - prevent logi until package
installs completed
Chris Wilcox schrieb:
This feature (password-protected cancel of a logon delay window) only
works if administrator is around.
So setting the login delay to really long is the only option
An update to my previous issue:
The beta wpkg client still showed the same error.
I then tried the 'execute before/execute after' options to map a drive to the
wpkg folder on the Linux server and unmap it afterwards, pointing the wpkg.js
etc to this drive letter - works perfectly so far
Chris Wilcox wrote:
Chris Wilcox schrieb:
An update to my previous issue:
The beta wpkg client still showed the same error.
I then tried the 'execute before/execute after' options to map a drive
to the wpkg folder on the Linux server and unmap it afterwards, pointing
Hi all,
I have a number of sites who have a Linux-based Internet cache/proxy with some
preconfigured shared drives for storing user work (school/education).
None have any other servers on site so I was hoping to make use of one of these
shared drives for wpkg. I can install, configure
well he said that his guest account was prompting for a password. but
see, XP/Vista/whatever is already connected to the server as a certain
username, and then you are also trying to connect as guest (but it may
not matter since wpkg is connecting as the system user and not whomever
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:06:06 +0200
From: r.me...@wpkg.org
To: awill...@mdah.state.ms.us
CC: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] VSO image resizer
Hi Adam,
Adam Williams wrote:
Does anyone know how make this application silently install?
This is normal behaviour for any device using non-signed drivers. There isn't
any way around it beyond trying to source some signed drivers.
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:05:31 +0200
From: ande...@isy.liu.se
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] USB hardware drivers
I may be
Chris Wilcox schrieb:
If it does work then hundreds of us on a different user forum have been
missing a trick for decades!
I've tried in the past to package non-signed drivers for a scanner -
even if you create the MSI for them around plugging the device in as an
admin level
Hi,
I'm not a big user of the AD for package allocation but as far as I was aware
you can specify parameters to use during installation when using the AD?
If not then how do you do silent installs of MSI's? That uses additional
parameters (e.g. /q) so the parameters needed to roll out
Hi,
I'm trying to install an MSI which has a transform file to be applied
containing the serial number and disable auto-updates.
I can run a command prompt and install it fine but the WPKG client always fails
to install the app with the following install cmd:
install cmd='msiexec /i
Chris Wilcox schrieb:
Hi,
I'm trying to install an MSI which has a transform file to be applied
containing the serial number and disable auto-updates.
I can run a command prompt and install it fine but the WPKG client
always fails to install the app with the following
Chris Wilcox schrieb:
Could not process (install) 'Openmind Service Pack 5' (OpenMindSP5);
Exit code returned non-successful return value (1619) on command
'msiexec /i %SOFTWARE%\OpenMindSP5\Setup.msi
TRANSFORMS=%SOFTWARE%\OpenMindSP5\copysn.mst /qb-'
Error 1619
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:32:33 +0100
From: luca_mangane...@comune.trento.it
To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] Hosts, profiles, etc folder?
Hi, in the WPKG server package I found the hosts, profiles, etc folders.
I think that they are useful to group profiles and
I go a step further now - our commercial LAN has a 'CLEAN' build PC which is
used to create and test packages. This PC has an image of a clean XP build on
a hidden partition so we can roll back to this very quickly.
Since starting with WPKG I have setup an old but more than adequate test
I ran wpkg on Vista for the first time today - I initially didn't realise that
on Vista the wpkg window won't show up but I guess I don't mind so long as I
know it is actually running.
Out of interest is this 'feature' mentioned on the wpkg page anywhere?
From: mich...@ugilt.net
To:
BTW: I was keen enough to upgrade some small silent installers in the wiki
(Quicktime alternative was quite outdated and broken). Hopin' I'm not
offending old wpkg users :-)
That's the point of WPKG, you can fix/update/alter old or incorrect package
definitions - I've altered about 4
Hi all,
I've been trying to work this out but have tried for too long - is there any
way I can copy a shortcut from a network share (within the WPKG %SOFTWARE%
directory on our server) to the desktop of a computer?
I think I have got close but it continues to tell me that the file does not
Hi,
I'm a new user to WPKG but an old user of a very similar package distribution
technology that is provided with our education network (RM Connect 3 if that
means anything!). I was pointed to WPKG after looking for something that would
work alongside the large number of peer-peer networks
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