[wpkg-users] firefox and acrobat

[Rainer Meier]

Hi,

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> 2008-04-14 14:03:12, DEBUG  : Initialized temporary local log file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\wpkg-logInit.log
>> 2008-04-14 14:03:12, DEBUG  : Initializing new log file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\wpkg-dell002.log
>> 2008-04-14 14:03:12, DEBUG  : Reboot-Cmd is standard.
>> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : WPKG 1.0 starting...
>> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : Base directory is '\\hq\wpkg\cur'.
>> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : Log level is 255
>> 2008-04-14 14:03:13, DEBUG  : Trying to read XML file: \\hq\wpkg\cur\profiles.xml
>> 2008-04-14 14:04:20, DEBUG  : Successfully loaded XML file: \\hq\wpkg\cur\profiles.xml
> 
> It waits over 30 seconds to access the first file - looks like either:
> 
> 1) this workstation is *very* slow
> 2) your profiles.xml file is *very* large (and all other XML files)
> 3) there is some problem accessing network shares (WINS, DNS resolution, 
> other network problems etc.).
> 
> If I'd have to bet here, I'd bet on 3).

ACK.

Recently I've seen similar behavior on a couple of Windows XP machines. 
It was re-producable that connections to new hosts were "hanging" for 
quite a long time. After the connection was established, then data 
transfer was fast as usual. So it was difficult to debug since all 
transfer-bandwith testers just tested the bandwith, and not something 
like an "initial delay".

Test was easy:
- open cmd
- ping www.google.com

Then ping hung for half a minute to a minute and then response times 
showed normal answer times ranging from 20 to 60ms.


I run WinsockFixXP on this machines which fixed the problem.
@Brian: Probably you can try that or just run the following commands on 
your command line:
netsh winsock reset
netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh firewall reset
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
netsh firewall set service FILEANDPRINT ENABLE SUBNET

then reboot and check again.

br,
Rainer