[wpkg-users] wpkg insanely slow

[Brian May]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I guess you are using WPKG Client?

Yes.

> Could you do the following:
> 
> 1. Use "Show" WPKG user interface in WPKG Client
> 2. Put cmd.exe as "Execute before"
> 3. Log in, and try to browse the network / XML files from the cmd.exe 
> window manually. Try to do "net use \\server\share /user:DOMAIN\user 
> pass", see if it works, etc.

Ok. Can do this. Duh. I should have turned off the login delay. Looks 
like I am out of time today, will do so tomorrow.

> I doubt this slowness is a result of an error in wpkg.js or WPKG Client 
> (but who knows...).

Same here.

 > It looks like some strange network problems (WINS,
> DNS, but also duplicate IP addresses, or even duplicate MAC address, 
> which is extremely hard to debug).

None of those issues seems likely. Yes, I know, it is possible to have 
duplicate MAC addresses, but on two separate computers with different 
brand network adaptors?

> You also notice "unexpected network error" when you try to start WPKG 
> Client as a user with domain credentials - although you didn't paste a 
> full error message, most WPKG Client error messages are those reported 
> by the operating system.
> 
> See also: http://www.google.com/search?q=unexpected+network+error

Hmmm. Maybe I should have prefixed the user name with the name of the 
domain? Will try that tomorrow.


Brian May