[wpkg-users] WPKG cannot reach Samba at boot-up (was Re: Where is WPKG client config stored?)

[Dave Ewart]

On Monday, 21.05.2007 at 19:03 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:

> On Monday, 21.05.2007 at 12:02 -0500, Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> > Is the erroring PC using a wireless NIC?  I've found that wireless
> > NICs don't start their software and connect to the wireless
> > connection until a few seconds after the login screen comes up (or
> > after the start menu loads if not in a domain), however in both
> > cases, WPKG service has already ran and errored out since there
> > wasn't a network connection yet.
> 
> No, all the PCs I mention use wired NICs.  In fact, the PC hardware is
> all pretty similar, really; different, but very similar.

Working on this basis, though, I was wondering if there was any way to
make WPKG launch later in the boot process.  I even tried hacking the
registry to make "WPKG Service" dependent on some other services such as
TCP/IP and NetBIOS, to see if that made a difference, but no luck.

I am assuming that the problem I'm seeing is essentially a race
condition at boot-up and WPKG sometimes loses :-(

Dave.
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