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

[Aaron Bliss]

We worked around this issue on our Windows 7 hosts by changing the
startup mode of the wpkg service from automatic to delayed automatic.

Aaron

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:42 AM,  <donotcare at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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
>
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