[wpkg-users] wpkg-client - multiple issue's

[Jan Luehr]

Hi,

after solving the last issue I was able to give wpkg-client 1.0-rc1 a try I 
installed the client on 8 computers in one computer lab - here's my result:

- On one computer the client looks nice. The progress bar appears at 
login-time.
- On two computers the client crashes (event log: script exit, return 
value -1)
- On two computers I was able to install a .msi for adobe reader (created with 
wininstall LE by myself).
- On four computers the reader-msi-file fails by freezing the client. After 
killing Microsoft-Installer, the client continious.
- On one computer I'ven't enabled the client's debug GUI. I didn't notice, 
that the client was working, until a found a cscript-process at the 
task-manager.
- On seven computers I enabled the debug-GUI. By that I noticed that 
wpkg-client started after logging in. On six computers the client begun 
installing my software (.msi with /passive). In any case the .msi-dialogs 
were not rendered correctly: A blurred, modal crashed looking dialog appeared 
in the front. A user watching this, will certainly assume that the 
workstation crashed and call support.
 
On all computers, "by-hand" excution of wpkg (by wpkg-start.bat) was 
successfull.

Problems I encountered so far:
- wpkg-client has to be started as administrator - if started by "system" it 
logs an unexpected network error.
- wpkg-client seems to be unable to connect to a share anonymously. Instead of 
connecting without username/password, it seems that wpkg-client uses 
computername$ (as used for machine trust-accounts) as login name.
- wpkg needs it's own username/password to connect to a share. In a domain 
environment, where deployment information is located on the pdc this fails( 
unexpected network error - theory: Windows XP might have trouble to run 
different connections with diffrent logins to one server).It'd be really nice 
if wpkg would be able to use the credentials of the current user - if 
available.
- I wasn't able to get helpful log-entries and the windows event-Log is far 
form being verbose / helpful.Does wpkg-client provide some log / debug 
facility? (Verbose Logging to a file?)

Features, I haven't found so far:
- Watchdog functions, e.g. specifying timeouts for commands being executed.
- Debug mode for wpkg-client: What is wpkg-client doing right now and why is 
it doing it?

Thanks,
Keep smiling
yanosz


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