[wpkg-users] Again this: The network location cannot be reached

[Mark Nienberg]

Dejan Batic wrote:
> I’ve seen this subject before,  it always gave a lot of problems and I’m 
> not sure that is even resolved.
> 
>  
> 
>  Lately the problem was related to Realtek network card. In my case the 
> Realtek card is integrated on the motherboard but the curious thing is 
> that I get the same error when I disable the integrated NIC and put 
> another card (Davicom, or Intel). The same thing is happening on 4 new 
> PC’s! It’s Windows XP Pro SP3.

Another thing to check is that the client machine and the server to which it is 
connecting have the same time.  It seems wpkg tries to make the connection to the 
server before the workstation gets its ntp client running, so ideally the 
workstation's hardware clock is correct.

Why does this matter?  It is some sort of quirk or feature of windows networking.  I 
think Rainer explained it more clearly in a previous post.  I'm pretty sure I have 
seen this problem in action on a Mac machine that is loaded with WinXP.  I'm guessing 
that WinXP cannot correctly set the hardware clock on the Mac when windows shuts down.

Mark