On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:33:51 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Ugilt schrieb: >> Been struggling to get WPKG to work smoothly with wifi’ed laptops. >> >> >> >> The real issue is that the wifi connection takes some 10-14 seconds to >> come alive so a 10 second ping is working from time to time but not >> reliable. >> >> I have not been able to get the “offline custom script” method to >> work >> at all – running my script offline and debugging is doing fine – but >> not >> when called from within wpkg. >> >> >> >> I think what I really miss is a retry parameter for the ping test ie. 3 >> times – or simple raise the build in 10 second max limitation >> >> >> >> Any thoughts? > > Yeah, it's a common complaint and I understand it. It will be addressed, > but I can't give you any timeframes for this specific issue. > > > As a workaround, you could probably use Windows Task Scheduler, or > (Local) Group Policy? Note the drawbacks though: > > - GPO is hard to setup if you have a Samba domain controller, because > you have to use local policies > > - I noticed that the Task Scheduler tends to "forget" the password. So > for example, when you configure a task to be started as a user "joe" > with password "secret", it happens that the password is somehow > "forgotten" after several months (even if it wasn't changed at all!) and > has to be specified again. This happened for me in several separate > Windows 2003 domains. > > >
Actually worse! I'm running a handful of Vista Home laptops for the family at home "managed" by WPKG. Vista home does not have GPO at all. The Task Schedule approach requires that WPKG is installed/maintained by hand on each PC's as environment settings etc needs to be defined locally - really not an option. The real alternative is to grant admin rigths to users and then run wpkg.js by a logion script - but that sure triggers other issues ;-) looking forward to THE solution - really appreciate the dynamics of WPKG besides the issue above :-) Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
