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If you have WPKG runing on your workstations, you will probably want to see the software installed on each of them, even if the workstations are turned off.
As WPKG keeps its own "database" on each machine (it's in <code>%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wpkg.xml</code>, it's enough to copy it to a special share on your server.
If you use Samba, a share may be configured like this:
[wpkg-xml]
comment = WPKG workstation XML
path = /home/samba/wpkg-xml
browseable = no
valid users = unattended, Administrator
write list = Administrator
guest ok = no
Make sure you create the appropriate directory (path = above) with correct permissions. After that, check if you can write to this share as the user which normally runs WPKG.
Additionally, you have to make sure that wpkg.xml file is copied to this share, with a proper name. We use copy command to copy the file, and %COMPUTERNAME% variable with .xml extension for the destination file.
You can do this with WPKG of course:
<package
id="wpkg-xml"
name="wpkg.xml files from workstations"
revision="1"
priority="0"
execute="always">
<install timeout="15" cmd='cmd /C copy %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wpkg.xml \\server\wpkg-xml\%COMPUTERNAME%.xml /Y' />
</package>
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As WPKG keeps its own "database" on each machine (it's in <code>%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wpkg.xml</code>, it's enough to copy it to a special share on your server.
If you use Samba, a share may be configured like this:
[wpkg-xml]
comment = WPKG workstation XML
path = /home/samba/wpkg-xml
browseable = no
valid users = unattended, Administrator
write list = Administrator
guest ok = no
Make sure you create the appropriate directory (path = above) with correct permissions. After that, check if you can write to this share as the user which normally runs WPKG.
Additionally, you have to make sure that wpkg.xml file is copied to this share, with a proper name. We use copy command to copy the file, and %COMPUTERNAME% variable with .xml extension for the destination file.
You can do this with WPKG of course:
<package
id="wpkg-xml"
name="wpkg.xml files from workstations"
revision="1"
priority="0"
execute="always">
<install timeout="15" cmd='cmd /C copy %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wpkg.xml \\server\wpkg-xml\%COMPUTERNAME%.xml /Y' />
</package>
[[category:Documentation]]