[wpkg-users] Questions about offline mode and executing the wpkg service

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Dieter Scholz schrieb:

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> Today I've had time to test a setup with & without VMware. This time I used 
> W2K for testing. The result was that the VMware setup waited for the timeout 
> to end a on my 'real' box offline mode with logon delay worked as it should. 
> Very strange ... this is the first time I found such strange behaviour inside 
> a virtual machine. And I do a lot of testing with it ...
> 
> But - once again and please don't flame me for that :-) - don't you think that 
> if wpkg reported in the log 'Server connection failed' and still starts 
> trying to call the script on the network share, it has nothing to do with 
> VMware networking because the evaluation has already took place if a network 
> share is available or not? And don't you think a more robust implementation 
> of the 'is server available' check that would even work under VMware would be 
> better (I'm sorry I cannot help you with that, 'cause I 've no clue in 
> Windows programming - but I offer my help as a tester)?

Yep, something must be wrong, somewhere.
I wonder how it behaves in Qemu.


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