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Michael Chinn | 3 Sep 2010 07:18

Large deployments and fileshares [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

Just had an unfortunate experience with deploying and acrobat reader update from 8 to 9.3.4

It’s a simple administrative install point on a samba server with a custom MST.

All went well when people logged on until 0850 when the server suddenly died under the load of machines trying to copy 109mb of data.

Does anyone know of an effective way to mitigate this.

I ended up changing the script to robocopy the admin install point to the local machine before deploying from there as a work around.

Does WPKG have any ability to do failover if the main deployment files aren't available or should I script for this?

Michael Chinn

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Natxo Asenjo | 3 Sep 2010 09:03

Re: Large deployments and fileshares [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Michael Chinn
<Michael.Chinn <at> gbrmpa.gov.au> wrote:
> Just had an unfortunate experience with deploying and acrobat reader update
> from 8 to 9.3.4
>
> It’s a simple administrative install point on a samba server with a custom
> MST.
>
> All went well when people logged on until 0850 when the server suddenly died
> under the load of machines trying to copy 109mb of data.
> Does anyone know of an effective way to mitigate this.

It was not probably the copying that caused the trouble (you write
later that using robocopy was a workaround), but the unpacking of the
package on the share again and again and again.

How many clients? How many smbd processes were running? What was the
load on the server? On what hardware do you run this samba server? It
may simply not be up to a lot op disk i/o. I've seen this on virtual
machines whose hard disks are on a NFS share. For optimal disk
performance you need luns in a san  (so direct hardware access to the
disks from the virtual machines - very expensive) or a (very
expensive) netapp nfs filer with 10Gb network switches.  

> I ended up changing the script to robocopy the admin install point to the
> local machine before deploying from there as a work around.
>
> Does WPKG have any ability to do failover if the main deployment files
> aren't available or should I script for this?

wpkg cannot do this to my knowledge, but the underlying OS can.
Cluster the samba servers with GFS. If one of the nodes goes down, the
other keeps going. It's not different from a windows cluster. Both are
complex solutions for high availabilty that require trained staff.

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David Touzeau | 5 Sep 2010 19:41

Howto Make XP works with webdav in SSL mode ?

Dear

I have created a webdav share on my linux using this configuration 
directives :

Alias /wpkg /usr/share/wpkg
	DavLockDB "/usr/share/wpkg/DavLock"
	BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" 
redirect-carefully
	BrowserMatch "MS FrontPage" redirect-carefully
	BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
	BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[0123]" redirect-carefully
	BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs/1.0" redirect-carefully
	BrowserMatch "^XML Spy" redirect-carefully
	BrowserMatch "^Dreamweaver-WebDAV-SCM1" redirect-carefully
	<Directory "/usr/share/wpkg">
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
		DAV On
	</Directory>

I would like to know what parameters / path on WPKG file path field on 
Windows XP .

i have tried

	https://myserver:port/wpkg
	webdav://https://myserver:port/wpkg

With no results...

best regards
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Francisco F Henkel | 5 Sep 2010 20:17

windos vista or windows 7 support

Hi :

I'm using an user with administration privileges, when I try to install your
1.3.9 client (the msi for 32 bits)  I get a message that it is NOT installed
because I need Administrator privileges. It is a windows Vista Home premium.

Is Vista Home or windows 7 Home supported?

Best regards
Francisco

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Chris Wilcox | 5 Sep 2010 22:03

Re: windos vista or windows 7 support

> From: francisco.henkel <at> grupoaldebaran.com
> To: wpkg-users <at> lists.wpkg.org
> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:17:08 +0200
> Subject: [wpkg-users] windos vista or windows 7 support
>
> Hi :
>
> I'm using an user with administration privileges, when I try to install your
> 1.3.9 client (the msi for 32 bits) I get a message that it is NOT installed
> because I need Administrator privileges. It is a windows Vista Home premium.
>
> Is Vista Home or windows 7 Home supported?
>
> Best regards
> Francisco

I found that I had to run the install as administrator by right-clicking the Command Prompt shortcut and choosing 'Run as administrator' then launching the install via the command line. The admin user is disabled by default on Vista/Win7 so even though you think your user has admin rights, they don't actually have full priviledges.

Chris

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Aaron Bliss | 7 Sep 2010 17:16

wpkg, windows 7 and wireless

Hi all,
I thought I would post to the list the solution that we have come up
with when dealing with laptops that only connect via wireless AP's.
Since wireless connections are generally managed by the end user, we
implemented the a batch script that is called via a scheduled task.
The scheduled task is executed using the built in SYSTEM account at
startup.

Here is the logic behind the batch script:

1. set the wpkg service to start type of manual
2. pause for 10 seconds
3. check for a route to www.yahoo.com.
4. If one does not exist, it will repeat steps 2 and 3
5. If a route exists (meaning that in the case of a wireless user they
have connected to an access point AND authenticated to the AP), the
script will break out of the loop and start the wpkg service

Here is the code:

 <at> echo off

 <at> rem set wpkg service to manual
sc config WpkgService start= demand

 <at> rem wait until there is a reliable network connection
:waitloop
echo Waiting for wireless....
Ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10  > nul
ping www.yahoo.com |find /i "reply" >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto waitloop

:connected
 <at> rem then wait for 5 minutes, to ensure all related networking
components are now working properly
ping 10.0.3.1 -n 1 -w 300000

 <at> rem finally start the wpkg service
net start WpkgService
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Michael Chinn | 9 Sep 2010 02:39

Re: wpkg, windows 7 and wireless [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

This might be of interest to further exploit windows 7 networks...

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/usenetworklist.aspx?PageFlow=FixedWidth

Michael Chinn
PC Support Office
Information and Communications Technology
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
2-68 Flinders Street
PO Box 1379
Townsville Qld 4810

Ph:    07 4750 0855
Fax:   07 4772 6093
email: michael.chinn <at> gbrmpa.gov.au

Visit us at: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au
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To: wpkg-users <at> lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] wpkg, windows 7 and wireless

Hi all,
I thought I would post to the list the solution that we have come up
with when dealing with laptops that only connect via wireless AP's.
Since wireless connections are generally managed by the end user, we
implemented the a batch script that is called via a scheduled task.
The scheduled task is executed using the built in SYSTEM account at
startup.

Here is the logic behind the batch script:

1. set the wpkg service to start type of manual
2. pause for 10 seconds
3. check for a route to www.yahoo.com.
4. If one does not exist, it will repeat steps 2 and 3
5. If a route exists (meaning that in the case of a wireless user they
have connected to an access point AND authenticated to the AP), the
script will break out of the loop and start the wpkg service

Here is the code:

 <at> echo off

 <at> rem set wpkg service to manual
sc config WpkgService start= demand

 <at> rem wait until there is a reliable network connection
:waitloop
echo Waiting for wireless....
Ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10  > nul
ping www.yahoo.com |find /i "reply" >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto waitloop

:connected
 <at> rem then wait for 5 minutes, to ensure all related networking
components are now working properly
ping 10.0.3.1 -n 1 -w 300000

 <at> rem finally start the wpkg service
net start WpkgService
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Mark Nienberg | 14 Sep 2010 19:41

font install on Windows 7

I'm installing truetype fonts on Windows7-64bit machines using the method of copying 
the font files to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder and then creating the registry entries.

This is generally described in the wiki
http://wpkg.org/Fonts
except that on 64-bit systems there is a second registry entry in the Wow6432Node.

Anyway, on Win7 the fonts do not show up in any applications or in the Font control 
panel until the system is rebooted again. Then everything works fine. The extra 
reboot is not required on XP machines.

I've tried restarting the Windows Font Cache Service.  I've tried deleting the 
C:\Windows\System32\FNTCACHE.DAT file and then restarting the cache service.
I discovered that the FNTCACHE.DAT file is not re-created until a reboot.

Does anyone know a method to force Win7 to re-create the font cache without a reboot?

Before you ask, I am using this method because I don't know ahead of time what font 
files will be installed or the names of the fonts. I am installing all ttf fonts that 
happen to be in a temporary directory. I am using a perl routine with the Font::TTF 
module to read the font name out of the ttf file.

In the past I have used other font installation methods (like Inno Setup packages) 
successfully, but for this particular install I need a more flexible approach.

Thanks,
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Дубовский А.Г. | 15 Sep 2010 12:22

FW: How can I uninstall programs installed before I start use WPKG?

I have one task - uninstall application, prohibited for use in my company. I prepared profiles for all
programms, including restricted applications. 
How can I uninstall programs installed before I start use WPKG?

I want to find proper solution for it.
While I know the two,not the best option:
1. set to <install cmd="..."> command for uninstall it 2. first profile must copy to client
c:\windows\system32\wpkg.xml - all my restricted profiles (simulate as already installed programs),
after than WPKG try to uninstall it itself.

With regards,
Alexey Dubovsky
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Todd Blum | 15 Sep 2010 21:11

Need help having WPKG set filesystem permissions before and after running script

Hello,

 	I am using WPKG for the first time.  I have WPKG and wpkgexpress 
running on XMPP on a Windows XP workstation in a Windows domain 
environment.

 	I have been updating my company's .NET application with a script 
that runs cwrsync on the Program Files directory on the user's 
workstations, but I've been getting in to some trouble because cwrsync 
leaves the ownership and permissions of the files different than it finds 
them.  I was hoping to use WPKG to first set ownership and permissions on 
the program's Program Files directory, perform the cwrsync script, then 
set the ownership and permissions again on the Program Files directory. 
I'm not readily seeing a package example for changing filesystem 
permissions--does anyone know the best way to perform these tasks?

 	I chose rsync as the update model because the program doesn't have 
to be reinstalled with each update, and I thought it would minimize 
bandwidth usage (the rsync server is centralized and there are many 
disparate networks).

Thanks for your help,

Todd

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