I didn't set up the Samba server so I don't really know totally how it operates. And frankly I can never get Samba to do what I want... We already had the Windows machines reboot in the middle of the night when I started working with WPKG, so it seemed easiest to add a line to run WPKG at the end of the startup script.
Jerry Haltom wrote: > Curiously, why does your Samba have problems with this? I've never > experienced that. > > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 13:04 -0400, Matt Miller wrote: >> This is our setup almost exactly. We have every user log out when they >> leave and use a script to reboot our Windows machines nightly. This >> insures that WPKG runs, among other things. >> >> Urs Rau wrote: >>> Some background to my question. My problem with regards to different >>> ways of running and stopping and restarting wpkg service seems to be >>> mostly centred around the fact that in my environment, (xp pro >>> workstations connected to linux samba PDC with active network mappings) >>> I cannot have more than one user credential active with mappings against >>> the server. So it's a case of one or the other. So if the user has >>> logged in to the server and has his or her network drives mapped against >>> the PDC, as automatically done by the network logon script, then I can't >>> run a scheduled run of 'wpkg.js /synchronize' using different, 'network >>> - admin - access - privileged', user credentials against the same samba >>> pdc server. >>> >>> So the 'only' way I have found wpkg service working for me is when set >>> to startup as a service that has specific privileged >>> network username and password set for the service. But this means >>> the wpkg.js is not run often enough to pickup changes, unless I also >>> start interfering more with how often people restart their workstations. >> > -- - Matt Miller - Solutions for Progress 728 South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 215-701-6108 (v) 215-972-8109 (f) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
