[wpkg-users] Deploying System in Real-Time

[Peter Gough]

When you run the script locally are you using the same account as you're
using with psexec? Also might be worth taking a look at the event viewer
(Start > Run > eventvwr.msc) and checking for errors. I suspect that your
package install isn't completing correctly - perhaps the checks fail - which
would mean the wpkg.xml wouldn't be updated.

The other thing I do for troubleshooting is to open a command prompt on a
problem machine (make sure you run it as Administrator) and run
'\\wpkg-server\wpkg-share\wpkg.js /synchronize', i.e. without the /nonotify
and /quiet switches. This should give you a bit more info in terms of
tracking down what's happening with your install.

To answer your final question my XP clients have the wpkg-client installed
and query the server at startup. My Win7 clients also query at startup but
this is done with a simple group policy-managed script. The only
disadvantage is that Win7 users don't get a nice dialog box telling them
what's going on but the advantages of managed software deployment certainly
make that inconvenience worthwhile.

Peter

On 1 June 2011 07:30, Dave Goodbourn <dave.goodbourn at u-fx.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm not at work at the moment, but a bit more info for you. The client is a
> Win 7 x64 and I'm testing the commands from an XP SP3 x86. I'm running with
> an administrators account.
>
> Another thing I've noticed is that if I run the cscript locally it works
> just great, but if I just start the service it can sometimes again fail to
> update the wpkg.xml file. I'm going to try a different software installation
> as I'm not 100% sure the VLC script I'm testing with works 100% correctly.
> I'll do some more testing tomorrow when I'm back in work and try and narrow
> down where I'm going wrong!!!
>
> BTW, how does everyone else deploy software with WPKG? Push or Pull?
>
> Cheers,
> D.
>
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Peter Gough <pmgough at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's also the way I read it.
>>
>> Can you check that the account you're using for the updates has
>> permissions (RWXD) to write the file in %windir%\system32.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/06/2011, at 6:07 AM, Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Kevin,
>> >
>> > On 31.05.2011 20:05, k.ijssel at eqaz.nl wrote:
>> >> Did you gave the file 777 rights?
>> >>
>> >> Else it can't be edited..
>> >
>> > I think he's not talking about server-side XML (wpkg.js does not update
>> any of
>> > them unless you have a script/package which just copies it from local to
>> a
>> > share). So I was assuming that he refers to the local wpkg.xml file -
>> which
>> > would also explain why he's seeing the same updates on each run.
>> >
>> > Moreover I don't think he's using Linux/Samba server; but I am not sure
>> as he
>> > did not specify it.
>> >
>> > br,
>> > Rainer
>> >
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