[wpkg-users] The network location cannot be reached

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Mark Nienberg schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 
>> And, the most important - was the logon delay window shown unnecessarily 
>> long when "The network location cannot be reached" in 1.3.4?
> 
> 
> The logon delay was not unnecessarily long, so that part of 1.3.4 works for me.

Good.


> I have also been experimenting with the offline mode as you suggested. I wrote a 
> vbscript program to implement a delay and wanted to use it as the custom script but I 
> could not get it to work.  The test complains about a bad path.

Is the script on the server?
If there is no network yet, it will always complain about a bad path?


> I tried to set the 
> custom script to:
> 
> cscript C:\delay.vbs 15
> 
> Where the 15 is seconds for the delay.

Wouldn't be "ping -n 15 127.0.0.1" easier?


> Later I also tried to use a simple ".bat" batch file with a delay in it so I would 
> not have to call cscript first, but the log shows that although wpkg client is using 
> the custom script, nothing is actually run.
> 
> Anyway, using the built-in check with a 10 second max, does seem to increase the 
> frequency of successful connections.  I'll watch it for a few days on the machines 
> that are having this problem.

Can you reproduce the issue on a newly installed machine?
Can you describe specs/hardware of affected machines (and Windows 
version, too)?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org