I have no idea why -secret <big-identifier> works or doesn't work depending on windows version - just figured out enough to get things working on our windows slaves :)
Glad it worked for you chanda On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Steve K <[email protected]>wrote: > > Chandra, > > Thank you very much. I've successfully used your method on one of the XP > machines that was previously failing. > It's important to note that, at first, I kept the "-secret > <big-identifier>" but that did not work. > After editing the jenkins-slave.xml as you recommended to contain > "file:///C:/Jenkins/slave-agent.jnlp", it worked. > > I am curious. Why does "http://<server>/computer/<node>/slave-agent.jnlp > -secret <big-identifier> " work on newer versions of Windows, but not on XP? > > Thank you very much for your solution. I appreciate it greatly. > > Steve K. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
