[wpkg-users] Problems getting wpkg working

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Adam Egan schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a few problems getting wpkg to work. I'll first tell you my setup.
> 
> I'm running Samba on FreeBSD, and the wpkg clients are Windows XP
> Professional SP2.
> 
> I have created a \\server\wpkg share, and have installed the 'WPKG
> Client' onto my XP machines (I have tried both CLI and GUI methods).
> When I restart my XP machine, there does not appear to be any sign of
> the WPKG starting (I have ticked 'show interface' for testing purposes
> also). I added a sample package of putty.exe with the code below:
> 
> <package
>         id="putty"
>         name="Putty"
>         revision="1"
>         reboot="false"
>         priority="1"
>         execute="always">
> 
>         <check type="file" condition="exists"
> path="C:\windows\system32\putty.exe" />
>         <install cmd='cmd.exe /C copy /y
> \\192.168.0.5\software\putty.exe c:\windows\system32\' />
> 
> </package>
> 
> this is a member of the 'default' profile.. and I have applied the
> default profile to all clients like this:
> 
> <host name="host1" profile-id="default" />
> <host name=".+" profile-id="default" />
> 
> The result is that nothing appears to have happened, and indeed,
> putty.exe is never put into the System32 folder. The username and
> password for accessing the share are fine (proved with 'test
> settings'), and I am running WPKG as the 'SYSTEM' account.
> 
> Any help would be immensely appreciated!

Check Event Log on that machine to see why it fails.

And without restarting the machine, in cmd.exe box:

net stop "WPKG service"
net start "WPKG service"


Look in the event log in the meantime for errors.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
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