[wpkg-users] WPKG and Vista UAC

[Vladimír Pšenička]

Yes they are on different shares (machines):

WPKG (wpkg.js, xml files etc.) are in netlogon share on PDC (samba) and
software installers are on BDC (samba). Is this any problem?



Tomasz Chmielewski napsal(a):
> Vladimír Pšenička schrieb:
> 
> (...)
> 
>>>   guest user (from session setup) not permitted to access this share
>>> (install)
>>
>> problem is that guest user cannot access share, so I added "guest ok =
>> yes" to smb.conf, before this I had Domain Admin account in WPKG execute
>> context user, so access to share wasn't problem, but Vista with UAC
>> didn't work (need to elevate user rights).
>>
>> Final I have:
>> ---
>> WPKG path user: domain user
>> WPKG execution context user: SYSTEM
>> "guest ok = yes" in smb.conf in share definition on samba machine
>> ---
>>
>> and everything works fine on XP and Vista with UAC
> 
> Note that with this setting *everyone* can access this share.
> 
> 
> What is still not clear for me: is your software share a different one
> from the WPKG share (the one where you keep wpkg.js)?
> 
> If yes, you may indeed have problems accessing them.
> 
> Using one single share for both software (installers) and WPKG (wpkg.js,
> config.xml, package definitions) is the recommended one I'd say.
> 
> 

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Vladimir Psenicka
IT system engineer
Prodeco a.s.