[wpkg-users] WPKG running as local system unable to download profiles.xml file

[Paul McGrath]

Hi Rainer,
  I think Antony is using a HTTP model, the XML files are downloaded from the web.
Paul
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From: wpkg-users [wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Antony Awaida [antony at apporto.co]
Sent: 30 July 2014 20:01
To: Rainer Meier
Cc: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG running as local system unable to download profiles.xml file

Hi Rainer:

Thanks for your response. I appreciate it.

Before I got your replies, I experimened with an alternate approach: 1) in a first step, I download the XML files to disk. I then use your code to parse the files and continue processing. You can see the code further below.

So this approach seems to work well and the XML files are correctly written to disk and then parsed. However, for some reason WPKG.js exits and fails to write the


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org<mailto:r.meier at wpkg.org>> wrote:
Hi Antony


On 30.07.2014 00:51, Antony Awaida wrote:
I have identified the problem to be in the following piece of WPKG.js code. So I
created the following script:

var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
xsl.async = false;
xsl.validateOnParse = false;
xsl.load(filePath);
                 dinfo("XSLT: " + xsl.xml);

As expected the above script returns an empty xsl.xml when run as LocalSystem.
However, when I changed the Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0 to Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0,
WPKG does not seem to run.

The code uses Microsoft XML framework objects. If you face issues with the objects you might try installing latest updates of Microsoft XML Framework.
Though usually the problem is within authentication on network shares and different handling of SYSTEM account regarding network authentication which is out of scope for WPKG core development.

I am usually running WPKG using WPKG client which also runs as system account but does also take care about proper network share credential setup.

You might try two work-arounds:

1. Create service user rather than running WPKG service as SYSTEM account.

2. Instead of launching wpkg.js/cscript.exe directly as a SYSTEM service wrap it within a cmd.exe script which handles network authentication and credential setup (net use). The script should verify whether files on share are properly readable before invoking wpkg.js.


Almost certainly your local SYSTEM account faces access denied on the network share when connecting to your share. Although this is a guess since you neither provide logs nor details on your setup (client type, patch level, how credential setup is done, server type, patch level, connection logs and traces...).


br,
Rainer



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