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

[dbatic at un-instraw.org]

> 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


I'm almost sure that the time difference between the server and the client
is no more than a few minutes as I set up the bios time myself. However,
I'll check it out on Monday when I get back to office.

Thanks

Dejan