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Jan Luehr | 5 Sep 2007 13:04

wpkg-client doesn't do anything

Hello,

I've just migrated to wpkg and "on demand" deployment (eg running by clicking 
wpkg-start.bat) works fine - but I'd like to use automated deployment as 
well.
Therefore I'm trying to use wpkg-client. I installed wpkg-client as installed 
described at http://wpkg.org/index.php/Screenshots for all users on a 
workstation. I checked show user interface checkbox, I even removed /quiet as 
a wpkg-parameter. But for now, wpkg-client does nothing.
I see no gui - anytime anywhere.
No software is installed - anytime, anywhere.
If I start the wpkg service by hand, windows tells me the service has been 
successfully terminated.

What may be wrong here?

Thanks in advance,
Keep smiling
yanosz

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Tomasz Chmielewski | 5 Sep 2007 13:24
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Re: wpkg-client doesn't do anything

Jan Luehr schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just migrated to wpkg and "on demand" deployment (eg running by clicking 
> wpkg-start.bat) works fine - but I'd like to use automated deployment as 
> well.
> Therefore I'm trying to use wpkg-client. I installed wpkg-client as installed 
> described at http://wpkg.org/index.php/Screenshots for all users on a 
> workstation. I checked show user interface checkbox, I even removed /quiet as 
> a wpkg-parameter. But for now, wpkg-client does nothing.
> I see no gui - anytime anywhere.
> No software is installed - anytime, anywhere.
> If I start the wpkg service by hand, windows tells me the service has been 
> successfully terminated.
> 
> What may be wrong here?

What version of WPKG Client?

You sure the paths are OK?

What does the Windows Event Log say?

If you start cscript \\server\...\wpkg.js /synchronize /debug - does it 
work?

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Guenael Sanchez - ENS Lyon | 5 Sep 2007 13:30
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Re: wpkg-client doesn't do anything

Jan Luehr a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I've just migrated to wpkg and "on demand" deployment (eg running by clicking 
> wpkg-start.bat) works fine - but I'd like to use automated deployment as 
> well.
> Therefore I'm trying to use wpkg-client. I installed wpkg-client as installed 
> described at http://wpkg.org/index.php/Screenshots for all users on a 
> workstation. I checked show user interface checkbox, I even removed /quiet as 
> a wpkg-parameter. But for now, wpkg-client does nothing.
> I see no gui - anytime anywhere.
> No software is installed - anytime, anywhere.
> If I start the wpkg service by hand, windows tells me the service has been 
> successfully terminated.
>
> What may be wrong here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Keep smiling
> yanosz
>
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Jan Luehr | 5 Sep 2007 15:50

Re: wpkg-client doesn't do anything

Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 13:24 schriebe Tomasz Chmielewski:
> Jan Luehr schrieb:

> > I've just migrated to wpkg and "on demand" deployment (eg running by
> > clicking wpkg-start.bat) works fine - but I'd like to use automated
> > deployment as well.
> > Therefore I'm trying to use wpkg-client. I installed wpkg-client as
> > installed described at http://wpkg.org/index.php/Screenshots for all
> > users on a workstation. I checked show user interface checkbox, I even
> > removed /quiet as a wpkg-parameter. But for now, wpkg-client does
> > nothing.
> > I see no gui - anytime anywhere.
> > No software is installed - anytime, anywhere.
> > If I start the wpkg service by hand, windows tells me the service has
> > been successfully terminated.
> >
> > What may be wrong here?
>
> What version of WPKG Client?
>
> You sure the paths are OK?
>
> What does the Windows Event Log say?

bingo.Windows logs "Zugiff verweigert" (permission denied). This is quite 
unexpected, 'cause no username / password is requiered to access this share - 
but after creating an appropiate user account, the problem vanished - 
stange... (btw. it might be helpful to add some sanity-checks to the
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Tomasz Chmielewski | 5 Sep 2007 16:31
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Re: wpkg-client doesn't do anything

Jan Luehr schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 13:24 schriebe Tomasz Chmielewski:
>> Jan Luehr schrieb:
> 
>>> I've just migrated to wpkg and "on demand" deployment (eg running by
>>> clicking wpkg-start.bat) works fine - but I'd like to use automated
>>> deployment as well.
>>> Therefore I'm trying to use wpkg-client. I installed wpkg-client as
>>> installed described at http://wpkg.org/index.php/Screenshots for all
>>> users on a workstation. I checked show user interface checkbox, I even
>>> removed /quiet as a wpkg-parameter. But for now, wpkg-client does
>>> nothing.
>>> I see no gui - anytime anywhere.
>>> No software is installed - anytime, anywhere.
>>> If I start the wpkg service by hand, windows tells me the service has
>>> been successfully terminated.
>>>
>>> What may be wrong here?
>> What version of WPKG Client?
>>
>> You sure the paths are OK?
>>
>> What does the Windows Event Log say?
> 
> bingo.Windows logs "Zugiff verweigert" (permission denied). This is quite 
> unexpected, 'cause no username / password is requiered to access this share - 
> but after creating an appropiate user account, the problem vanished - 
> stange... (btw. it might be helpful to add some sanity-checks to the
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Guenael Sanchez - ENS Lyon | 5 Sep 2007 17:00
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Re: WPKG Client and laptop

Tomasz Chmielewski a écrit :
> Marco Gaiarin schrieb:
>   
>> Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski
>>   In chel di` si favelave...
>>
>>     
>>> Basically, if you have a timeout of 10 minutes, but can't connect to the 
>>> server, you will be delayed by about 1 minute if you use IP addresses 
>>> (\\10.1.1.1\blah), and about 30 seconds if you use names (\\server\blah).
>>>       
>> True, but also i spot this now and them on not permanently connected
>> machine.
>>
>> Clearly seems a 'windows/hardware' problem, not a WPKG one, but i need
>> to fix, or at least circumvent it.
>>
>>
>> Some ideas?
>>     
>
> I don't know.
> I see the issue concerns more users - so perhaps we should add something
> like a "laptop mode" to WPKG Client?
>
> Something like that on the "logon delay" page in WPKG Client preferences:
>
> ^ Enable laptop mode
>    ___Server address___  Server IP or name
>
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Tomasz Chmielewski | 5 Sep 2007 17:05
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Re: WPKG Client and laptop

Guenael Sanchez - ENS Lyon schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski a écrit :
>> Marco Gaiarin schrieb:
>>   
>>> Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski
>>>   In chel di` si favelave...
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Basically, if you have a timeout of 10 minutes, but can't connect to the 
>>>> server, you will be delayed by about 1 minute if you use IP addresses 
>>>> (\\10.1.1.1\blah), and about 30 seconds if you use names (\\server\blah).
>>>>       
>>> True, but also i spot this now and them on not permanently connected
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> Clearly seems a 'windows/hardware' problem, not a WPKG one, but i need
>>> to fix, or at least circumvent it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Some ideas?
>>>     
>> I don't know.
>> I see the issue concerns more users - so perhaps we should add something
>> like a "laptop mode" to WPKG Client?
>>
>> Something like that on the "logon delay" page in WPKG Client preferences:
>>
>> ^ Enable laptop mode
>>    ___Server address___  Server IP or name
>>
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Tomasz Chmielewski | 5 Sep 2007 17:20
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Re: WPKG Client and laptop

Guenael Sanchez - ENS Lyon schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski a écrit :
>> Guenael Sanchez - ENS Lyon schrieb:
>>> Tomasz Chmielewski a écrit :
>>>> Marco Gaiarin schrieb:
>>>>  
>>>>> Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski
>>>>>   In chel di` si favelave...
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>> Basically, if you have a timeout of 10 minutes, but can't connect 
>>>>>> to the server, you will be delayed by about 1 minute if you use IP 
>>>>>> addresses (\\10.1.1.1\blah), and about 30 seconds if you use names 
>>>>>> (\\server\blah).
>>>>>>       
>>>>> True, but also i spot this now and them on not permanently connected
>>>>> machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Clearly seems a 'windows/hardware' problem, not a WPKG one, but i need
>>>>> to fix, or at least circumvent it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some ideas?
>>>>>     
>>>> I don't know.
>>>> I see the issue concerns more users - so perhaps we should add 
>>>> something
>>>> like a "laptop mode" to WPKG Client?
>>>>
>>>> Something like that on the "logon delay" page in WPKG Client
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Jan Luehr | 6 Sep 2007 17:18

wpkg-client - multiple issue's

Hi,

after solving the last issue I was able to give wpkg-client 1.0-rc1 a try I 
installed the client on 8 computers in one computer lab - here's my result:

- On one computer the client looks nice. The progress bar appears at 
login-time.
- On two computers the client crashes (event log: script exit, return 
value -1)
- On two computers I was able to install a .msi for adobe reader (created with 
wininstall LE by myself).
- On four computers the reader-msi-file fails by freezing the client. After 
killing Microsoft-Installer, the client continious.
- On one computer I'ven't enabled the client's debug GUI. I didn't notice, 
that the client was working, until a found a cscript-process at the 
task-manager.
- On seven computers I enabled the debug-GUI. By that I noticed that 
wpkg-client started after logging in. On six computers the client begun 
installing my software (.msi with /passive). In any case the .msi-dialogs 
were not rendered correctly: A blurred, modal crashed looking dialog appeared 
in the front. A user watching this, will certainly assume that the 
workstation crashed and call support.

On all computers, "by-hand" excution of wpkg (by wpkg-start.bat) was 
successfull.

Problems I encountered so far:
- wpkg-client has to be started as administrator - if started by "system" it 
logs an unexpected network error.
- wpkg-client seems to be unable to connect to a share anonymously. Instead of
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Tomasz Chmielewski | 6 Sep 2007 20:00
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Re: wpkg-client - multiple issue's

Jan Luehr schrieb:

> - On two computers the client crashes (event log: script exit, return 
> value -1)

What OS?
Can you do:

net stop "WPKG service"

and then, clear the event log, and:

net start "WPKG service"

and paste here what was appended?

> - On two computers I was able to install a .msi for adobe reader (created with 
> wininstall LE by myself).
> - On four computers the reader-msi-file fails by freezing the client. After 
> killing Microsoft-Installer, the client continious.

Don't create your own MSI files, unless really necessary and unless you 
really know how to do it.
For Acrobat Reader, there is an original silent installer or MSI - check 
WPKG wiki.

> - On one computer I'ven't enabled the client's debug GUI. I didn't notice, 
> that the client was working, until a found a cscript-process at the 
> task-manager.
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