[wpkg-users] Unable to start wpkg in Windows 7 until I manually connect to WPKG share

[Patrick Lee]

On Mar 22, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> Am 23.03.2010 00:39, Patrick Lee wrote:
> 
>>> I.e. if you change the config to use IP addresses - does it make any
>>> change?
>> 
>> I did change my config to use the IP address (one of the first things I
>> tried) and I still got the same error. I also checked the forward and
>> reverse lookups of the server name using nslookup and everything looks
>> good.
> 
> There were bugs reported for earlier versions where the client was unable to connect to the server during bootup.
> 
> Here, however, it's very different, as it's not even able to connect when you're logged in and i.e. try to "net start wpkgservice". Very strange.
> 
> What server do you use? Samba, or something by Microsoft? With Samba, it's usually easier to debug things.
> 
> Also, no firewall / antivirus is used on your Windows 7 PC?

Indeed, very strange. I have a couple hundred lab machines running XP that can connect to WPKG just fine. 

I have no antivirus installed on the Windows 7 machine but I did have the firewall enabled. I turned that off and got the same error, using IP and DNS names.

I'm using Samba 3.0.25 on a Mac OS X Server. I've upped the logging level on Samba and there are connections being made from my test machine so something is going through. I am getting this error message:

/SourceCache/samba/samba-187.9/samba/source/smbd/msdfs.c:get_referred_path(624)
  get_referred_path: |WPKG| in dfs path \ip-address-of.wpkg-server\WPKG is not a dfs root.

I'm going to do some more digging with that error message and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for your help!

Patrick