[wpkg-users] Problem with road warriors

[Marco Gaiarin]

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> Any idea how to solve this?

I've some branch office, all with the same configuration, and some road
warriors.
My WPKG installation have the recipes heavily parametrized and client
are profiled, so i simply copy (scp, rsync) my 'WPKG database' between
branches.

Every client try to load database and software packages from,
respectively, the FILE and MEDIA servers, that are aliases of the local
server(s) (i use samba, with 'netbios aliases' option).


In WPKGClient settings.xml i've defined an anvironment variable
(LOCALNET) to an unique id of that branch office.
In pre execution script (that reside server-side) i've simply put:

	if not "%LOCALNET%" == "sv" (
		exit 1
	)

so, if a foreign client came from another branch office, access the
WPKG system at wire speed (because they try to use anyway \\FILE\wpkg
that locally exist), but does nothing because LOCALNET does not match.


Note that this is not security, it is only commodity. ;-)


A far better security approach would be to have aliases for servers (to
speedup), but not to use guest access for share but user/pass access,
using different password for different branch offices.

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