[wpkg-users] WPKG with winexe (as an alternative to WPKG Client)

[Mike Burgener]

From: Chris Wilcox [mailto:not_rich_yet at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Montag, 21. Dezember 2009 21:26
To: wpkg
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG with winexe (as an alternative to 
WPKG Client)


> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:47:24 +0100
> From: mangoo at wpkg.org
> To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: [wpkg-users] WPKG with winexe (as an alternative to WPKG 
Client)
> 
> As we all know, WPKG Client does not work reliably on some hardware 
> configurations and generally broke when SP3 was released for Windows 
XP.

Works absolutely perfectly here, on Vista as well.

> 
> 
> So I wrote a small bash script as an alternative method of starting 
WPKG 
> (wpkg.js) on Windows workstations and it works well for me on a couple 

> of Samba servers.
> 
> Good news is that no client-side installation/configuration is needed.
> 
> 
> Samba, bash and winexe are needed, so this will not work for Active 
> Directory users (unless someone rewrites it to use psexec) - but they 
> can use startup scripts, so no big issue here.
> 
> 
> You can find more info and source code on:
> 
> http://wpkg.org/WPKG_with_winexe
> 
> 
> Feel free to comment, send corrections (as patches) etc.
> 
> 
Only comment is that I've had no issues at all with WPKG Client on XP 
SP3 :)
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