Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski In chel di` si favelave... > All problems lead to one conclusion: we should make WPKG Client in a > way, that it doesn't delay the user unnecessarily. No matter if it's a > hardware, software or any other problem. Computers are for people, not > the other way around. End user (that is, not admin) shouldn't have to > worry about these things.
Absolutly right. > Hence, the laptop mode idea, disabled by default. I'm not saying that it is a bad idea, only that before doing this i prefere to try to isolate the trouble to well understand it... > In 1°, we send a packet to that address, port 139 (or, should it be 445? > I think very old servers can listen only on port 139). If we get > connection refused, or no reply in 3 seconds (3 seconds? enough?), don't > delay anymore, don't execute WPKG. Good. > In 2°, execute a custom script. Obviously, it should be placed on a > local drive (something like %PROGRAMFILES%\wpkg\test-net.bat), but not > necessarily. If the exit code is not 0, don't delay anymore, don't > execute WPKG. > Mode 2° could be useful for roaming users (i.e., we have a VPN > connection with a server, but over a slow dial-up line, so don't attempt > to install any software). Or we have a connection, but to a different > server which only has the same DNS name. Just we are here, consider to add instead a general 'local pre script' and 'local post script' (as exist pre and post script). And, of course, check the exit codes of scripts, please both local and remote. ;) > > http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B832161&x=11&y=13 > No, that's something else. Really sure? I give it a try... -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) marco.gaiarin(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
