[wpkg-users] Feature request

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

michael at ugilt.net schrieb:

Please reply to the mailing list as well.

>> As a workaround, you could probably use Windows Task Scheduler, or 
>> (Local) Group Policy? Note the drawbacks though:
>>
>> - GPO is hard to setup if you have a Samba domain controller, because 
>> you have to use local policies
>>
>> - I noticed that the Task Scheduler tends to "forget" the password. So 
>> for example, when you configure a task to be started as a user "joe" 
>> with password "secret", it happens that the password is somehow 
>> "forgotten" after several months (even if it wasn't changed at all!) and 
>> has to be specified again. This happened for me in several separate 
>> Windows 2003 domains.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Actually worse!
> I'm running a handful of Vista Home laptops for the family at home
> "managed" by WPKG. Vista home does not have GPO at all.
> The Task Schedule approach requires that WPKG is installed/maintained by
> hand on each PC's as environment settings etc needs to be defined locally -
> really not an option.

Scheduled Tasks can be scripted:

http://wpkg.org/Installation_instructions_-_advanced#Starting_WPKG_using_Windows_Task_Scheduler

Works on XP, should work on Vista.
As such, you can install it even remotely via a script with winexe (from 
remote Linux) or psexec (from remote Windows).


> The real alternative is to grant admin rigths to users and then run wpkg.js
> by a logion script - but that sure triggers other issues ;-)

Yeah, that's "THE BAD WAY" to do it.


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Tomasz Chmielewski