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<BR>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:47:24 +0100<BR>> From: mangoo@wpkg.org<BR>> To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org<BR>> Subject: [wpkg-users] WPKG with winexe (as an alternative to WPKG Client)<BR>> <BR>> As we all know, WPKG Client does not work reliably on some hardware <BR>> configurations and generally broke when SP3 was released for Windows XP.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> So I wrote a small bash script as an alternative method of starting WPKG <BR>> (wpkg.js) on Windows workstations and it works well for me on a couple <BR>> of Samba servers.<BR>> <BR>> Good news is that no client-side installation/configuration is needed.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Samba, bash and winexe are needed, so this will not work for Active <BR>> Directory users (unless someone rewrites it to use psexec) - but they <BR>> can use startup scripts, so no big issue here.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> You can find more info and source code on:<BR>> <BR>> http://wpkg.org/WPKG_with_winexe<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Feel free to comment, send corrections (as patches) etc.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>Only comment is that I've had no issues at all with WPKG Client on XP SP3 :)<BR> <br /><hr />Have more than one Hotmail account? <a href=' http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394591/direct/01/' target='_new'>Link them together to easily access both.</a></body>
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