[wpkg-users] Where is WPKG client config stored?

[Dave Ewart]

On Wednesday, 25.04.2007 at 12:25 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> > I want a means of modifying the WPKG client configuration via means
> > other than (manually) using the Administrative shortcut, or via WPKG
> > itself.
> 
> Well, if you want to modify the WPKG registry settings yourself, then
> I'm afraid it's pretty complicated, and it can't be explained that
> fast and easily. If you know C and Windows API, consult the sources.
> Of course, paid support options for such time consuming cases are also
> available :)

OK, fair enough: point taken. ;-)

> > For example, using a WinXP system policy, or similar.  To do this, I
> > need to know *what* to set in the registry and *where*.
> 
> Then use this system policy to set your clock intact. Or, whatever
> other change, because it's not WPKG fault that it can't connect to a
> share.

Yes, I understand that.

> > My current example:
> >
> > For reasons explained in the other thread, some PCs are not
> > correctly launching WPKG at boot up because of the clock problem.
> > On a test machine, I can see that adding "net time \\server /set
> > /yes" to the "Pre-launch" stage of WPKG solves my problem.  So, I
> > need to modify the WPKG client config on N (many!) PCs in the same
> > way.
> 
> Use psexec (from a Windows machine) or winexe (from Linux) to launch
> this command remotely then.

OK, I wasn't aware of psexec previously: that looks promising.  I'll
investigate that.

> > But I need to do this without using WPKG to make the change, because
> > WPKG doesn't work on those PCs until this problem is fixed!  I
> > figured a good way to do this is to edit the WPKG client config via
> > a system policy or via some other means which edits the registry in
> > the required way.
> 
> Anyway - there is something broken with your setup (Kerberos
> tickets?).  Two machines need to connect to each other to know if the
> time on them is the same or different.  And you say that the machines
> are not connecting at all - so how do they know the time difference?
> Telepathy?  Perhaps you're looking in the wrong place, and wrongly
> assume it's something with clock?

I can't *explain* the problem, but it *is* 100% reproducible relating to
the clock being wrong.  I agree that that is very strange.

Thanks for all your help anyway, I'll figure this out even if it means
walking round to all N WinXP clients and updating the WPKG parameters by
hand... :-/

Thanks Tomasz/Alex/everyone,

Dave.

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