Hi Manny, Manny wrote: > Show GUI is enabled, when I start/stop the service I do not see a window > starting cscript (this is VISTA 32bit btw) Just another hint which is related to a Windows issue I discovered many times... Are there any other services provided by your production server? For example it might be that it provides network printers. If printers are connected, then Windows already has a network connection associated to this server. In such case the WPKG service might fail to map the temporary share to load WPKG by using the specified user. Windows usually reports a message like "The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password. To connect using a different user name and password, first disconnect any existing mapping to this network share." As there is usually no way to disconnect such automatically connected network resources (printers are loaded on startup) then this method fails. My solution to such a case: Use a server alias. Personally I use Samba servers where it is very easy to create an alias name for the same server. So my clients connect to \\server\printerXY and \\server\someshare in order to map all production shares. WPKG client instead uses \\software\RemInst share which is actually on the same server but Windows treats it differently due to the fact that it thinks it is a different server. Therefore I can connect to \\server\printerXY using "guest" and using "instadmin" to connect \\software\RemInst even if I just run one single server. br, Rainer |