We worked around this issue on our Windows 7 hosts by changing the startup mode of the wpkg service from automatic to delayed automatic.
Aaron On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:42 AM, <donotc...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hi, after using the WPKG client successfully for some time with WinXP > machines and a Samba 3 NT-style domain, I'm now trying to add some > Windows 7 Professional PCs to the mix. > > (This is NOt a wireless network.) > > The WPKG client service (I've tried both 1.3.9 and 1.3.14beta) starts ok > on the Win7 machines, but it never connects to the samba share where the > wpkg .js and .xml files, etc. are. In the PC's event viewer, the > wpkgservice shows the following error message: "WNetAddConnection2-> The > network path was not found." > > A packet capture shows that Win7 is indeed resolving the name of the > samba server when the WPKG service is running. It even tries to do a > web client connect to the WPKG share (but we don't use the WebDAV stuff > in our environment). But it does not even attempt to connect to the > Samba share. > > If, after logging in, I type "net start wpkgservice" , then everything > works as expected. > > I tried delaying the wpkgservice service startup by adding dependencies > on other windows services, such as spooler, lanmanworkstation, etc. but > that did not help. I also tried using the WPKG client's "Execute > before" setting to run a local batch file that slept for 30 seconds, but > that had no effect. > > I've seen some others post here with similar problems, but I never saw > that any solution was found. Again, this isn't a wireless network, so > that is not the cause of the failure. It seems like maybe some Win7 > networking setting could be tweaked? Or maybe the WPKG Client could use > some other method of connecting to a share on Win7? Or is it a samba > issue? > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > -matt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > _______________________________________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
