[wpkg-users] Trouble with offline mode...

[Marco Gaiarin]

WPKGClient 'stable' 1.2.1.

I've some portable system that, when offline, complain about to wait
the full logon wait time to logon.
Log and event viewer tell nothing special, apart 'connection error' as
some other people write in this list.

I've tried to enable 'offline mode', but in this way the logon delay
desappear suddenly and in event viewer i got only:

	Tipo evento:	Errore
	Origine evento:	WpkgService
	Categoria evento:	Nessuno
	ID evento:	1
	Data:		02/09/2008
	Ora:		11.10.50
	Utente:		N/D
	Computer:	NEOBE
	Descrizione:
	Server connecting: failed.

Seems that the same 'windows/hardware/moon_cycle' trouble that prevent
WPKG to work was hit by 'offline mode'.
This is rather good (no more stalls), but clearly bad box will never
have WPKG run anymore...


Could be that WPKGClient will run some script/command/... when offline
mode will fail? Eg, if offline mode test fail, run this (eg, schtsk
cscript ...) or schedule WPKGClient run on shutdown...

Why the timeout value of offline mode was limited to 10 seconds? Could
be that simply adding a timeout and a number of tries (try 8 times with
15 seconds of timeout each) we could solve this trouble?


Thanks.


PS: my virtual box suffered of a 5/10 crash, so could be that simply i
 have to rebuld it; my test box have the infamous 3Com Gigabit LOM
(3C940) ethernet card...

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