Urs Rau wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Mark Cairney wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just to share the fix I had for this particular problem- I created a >> scheduled task at logon to restart the wpkg service. This appears to >> give me the best of both worlds in that it checks it's state when a user >> logs on but also has a service on the machine that can be started so >> that updates can (if necessary) be pushed out to clients. Thanks for the >> pointer. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Mark > > Could you spell out the steps you took, please? Would this work for the > scenario when users are not admins but restricted users, and therefore > would work and update wpkg xml files and install remove software 'even - > if' a user with admin rights never logged in to this workstation? > I guess I am showing that I haven't tried scheduled tasks and therefore > don't know what rights are effective for those things.
Well, that's the whole purpose of using WPKG - install software, even if no user logged in - and even if he/she logged in, it doesn't matter if that user is an admin or not, as the logon process is completely unrelated to software deployment / WPKG process. schtasks (or WPKG Installer, or any other *proper* way of starting WPKG) start our tiny deployment tool as Administrator, SYSTEM user, or any other user with sufficient rights. > 'Subject' related question, but not wpkg related, can scheduled tasks be > copied to file and updated or 'transported' to other machines by > copying/updating files? No, you will loose credentials, as they are not stored in the scheduled tasks file, but somewhere else deep buried in the registry. You will have to add a new task as described here: http://wpkg.org/index.php/Installation_instructions_-_advanced#Starting_WPKG_using_Windows_Task_Scheduler If you're using a Linux server, you can add a task remotely with winexe: http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/ -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
