[wpkg-users] WPKG and Vista UAC

[Rainer Meier]

Rainer Meier wrote:
> For me it does perfectly. I guess you probably did not specify a full 
> user name including the domain prefix. You need to specify the username 
> to access the share in the form "<domain>\<user>" not user "<user>" as 
> Windows will use a local user name in this case.

One more note regarding this topic. Remember that Windows only supports
connections to one server using single user credentials. This means that
if you already have some connections to your server - WPKG will not be
able to connect to your share using different credentials.

This can become a problem for example if a network printer is attached
from the same server where you want to connect your software share from.
In such case you won't be able to connect as Windows will always use
"guest" credentials for the software share as well due to the fact that
it already connected to the printer using guest credentials.

This is a very annoying "feature" of Windows. So my work-around was
always as follows - and it worked perfectly:

I entered a host alias name in smb.conf:

netbios aliases = software

And this alias is used only for software distribution (no printers or 
other stuff connected to this alias.

So my printer is connected at \\server\printername. While WPKG uses 
\\software\RemInst share.


br,
Rainer