[wpkg-users] Windows 7 - wpkg client service starts, but "Network path was not found"

[donotcare at fastmail.fm]

Hi, after using the WPKG client successfully for some time with WinXP
machines and a Samba 3 NT-style domain, I'm now trying to add some
Windows 7 Professional PCs to the mix.

(This is NOt a wireless network.)

The WPKG client service (I've tried both 1.3.9 and 1.3.14beta) starts ok
on the Win7 machines, but it never connects to the samba share where the
wpkg .js and .xml files, etc. are.  In the PC's event viewer, the
wpkgservice shows the following error message: "WNetAddConnection2-> The
network path was not found."

A packet capture shows that Win7 is indeed resolving the name of the
samba server when the WPKG service is running.  It even tries to do a
web client connect to the WPKG share (but we don't use the WebDAV stuff
in our environment). But it does not even attempt to connect to the
Samba share.

If, after logging in, I type "net start wpkgservice" , then everything
works as expected.

I tried delaying the wpkgservice service startup by adding dependencies
on other windows services, such as spooler, lanmanworkstation, etc. but
that did not help.  I also tried using the WPKG client's "Execute
before" setting to run a local batch file that slept for 30 seconds, but
that had no effect.

I've seen some others post here with similar problems, but I never saw
that any solution was found.  Again, this isn't a wireless network, so
that is not the cause of the failure.  It seems like maybe some Win7
networking setting could be tweaked?  Or maybe the WPKG Client could use
some other method of connecting to a share on Win7?  Or is it a samba
issue?

Thanks in advance for any help!

-matt