[wpkg-users] firefox and acrobat

[Brian May]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
 > You can use the same model (Admininistrator or unprivileged user) 
with both unattended and wpkg.
 > And I'd discourage using guest access for accessing any WPKG shares 
anyway.
 >
 > The best approach IMO is to use an unprivileged user to access a 
password protected share.

Why is this better? I have so far been reluctant to add another user to 
our LDAP database - Samba uses LDAP for authentication here.

I can't see any security benefits, as either. At least not for wpkg.

 >> 2008-04-14 14:03:12, DEBUG  : Initialized temporary local log file: 
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\wpkg-logInit.log
 >> 2008-04-14 14:03:12, DEBUG  : Initializing new log file: 
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\wpkg-dell002.log
 >> 2008-04-14 14:03:12, DEBUG  : Reboot-Cmd is standard.
 >> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : WPKG 1.0 starting...
 >> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : Base directory is '\\hq\wpkg\cur'.
 >> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : Log level is 255
 >> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : Trying to read XML file: 
\\hq\wpkg\cur\profiles.xml
 >> 2008-04-14 14:04:20, DEBUG  : Successfully loaded XML file: 
\\hq\wpkg\cur\profiles.xml
 >
 > It waits over 30 seconds to access the first file - looks like either:
 >
 > 1) this workstation is *very* slow
 > 2) your profiles.xml file is *very* large (and all other XML files)
 > 3) there is some problem accessing network shares (WINS, DNS 
resolution, other network problems etc.).
 >
 > If I'd have to bet here, I'd bet on 3).

I have noticed accessing network shares on first access does take about 
30 seconds, unless logged in via the domain. I haven't worked out why 
yet. WINS resolution seems to be working fine. I will double check. If 
WINS wasn't working, I wouldn't expect anything to work.

However, once the share has been mapped, it should be fast.

 > This looks even worse:

Yes. It makes no sense to me.

 > Definitely, it is not normal.
 > Does it affect every machine?

So far I have only seriously investigated one computer - a Dell Latitude 
D610.

I tried a HP Compaq nw8440 too, but it looks like the basic Windows XP 
SP2 installation disk won't work with this hardware :-(. Won't detect 
the hard disk.

Brian May