[wpkg-users] Feature request

[michael at ugilt.net]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:33:51 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
wrote:
> Michael Ugilt schrieb:
>> Been struggling to get WPKG to work smoothly with wifi’ed laptops.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The real issue is that the wifi connection takes some 10-14 seconds to 
>> come alive so a 10 second ping is working from time to time but not 
>> reliable.
>> 
>> I have not been able to get the “offline custom script” method to
>> work
>> at all – running my script offline and debugging is doing fine – but
>> not
>> when called from within wpkg.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I think what I really miss is a retry parameter for the ping test ie. 3 
>> times – or simple raise the build in 10 second max limitation
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> Yeah, it's a common complaint and I understand it. It will be addressed, 
> but I can't give you any timeframes for this specific issue.
> 
> 
> As a workaround, you could probably use Windows Task Scheduler, or 
> (Local) Group Policy? Note the drawbacks though:
> 
> - GPO is hard to setup if you have a Samba domain controller, because 
> you have to use local policies
> 
> - I noticed that the Task Scheduler tends to "forget" the password. So 
> for example, when you configure a task to be started as a user "joe" 
> with password "secret", it happens that the password is somehow 
> "forgotten" after several months (even if it wasn't changed at all!) and 
> has to be specified again. This happened for me in several separate 
> Windows 2003 domains.
> 
> 
>

Actually worse!
I'm running a handful of Vista Home laptops for the family at home
"managed" by WPKG. Vista home does not have GPO at all.
The Task Schedule approach requires that WPKG is installed/maintained by
hand on each PC's as environment settings etc needs to be defined locally -
really not an option.
The real alternative is to grant admin rigths to users and then run wpkg.js
by a logion script - but that sure triggers other issues ;-)

looking forward to THE solution - really appreciate the dynamics of WPKG
besides the issue above :-)

Michael