[script]PENetwork

Posted 18 January 2007 - 10:59 PM

Hi everybody,

I uploaded version 037 of the script for my "PENetwork"-manager - this is primary for LiveXP.
A script version for VistaPE (current beta v04) you will find here: http://reboot.pro/7036/

All included tools in this script (especially "startnet.exe") are selfcreated by myself -> completely licensefree.
The script you can download from 'my' personal WinBuilder-website (http://holger.winbuilder.net).
DirectDL (zipped 493KB): http://holger.orgfre...s/PENetwork.zip

If you have any questions, suggestions (maybe later when I finish the most) or problems just let me know.

Tested by others and me with XP-SP2/SP3/W2K3-SP1-source and VMWare / VirtualBox / QEmu / RealWorld - thank you all very much

Greets...
Holger

Current state:
15.07.2009 - v37 (PENM 0.54):
- Changed: Internal handling of .icl-file - now it's possible to use own "PENetwork.icl" (for now it has
to be copied manually to the system32 dir)
- Changed: Default ini values of sharing to off and timer to 5 sec
- Added: Registering of "rsaenh.dll" after WiFi service installing to connect to
WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK networks (BootSDI-option OR addtional FBWF-plugin/script is still needed - PE root must be writable)
- Added: "PENetwork.icl" to source zip

Note!: network browsing doesn't work in QEMU by default cause of the buildin firewall

History:

Spoiler

11.07.2009 - v36 (PENM 0.53):
- Fixed: Wrong color values in profile editor
- Fixed: Missing color scheme elements combo in profile editor
- Fixed: Error while connecting to nonsecured wireless adhoc network
- Fixed: Case sensitive bug in WiFi available/prefered connections list
- Fixed: Wrong color value for WiFi connected list entry save
- Fixed: Case sensitive bug in WiFi direct connect
- Fixed: Wrong DNS/WINS button text after language switching
- Changed: Removed limitation for wireless adhoc network to only connect manually
- Changed: Some internal color handling if controls are disabled
- Changed: Internal color handling for some static controls
- Changed: Sub open/save dialogs parents
- Changed: Now more instances of profile editor/wifi exporter are allowed, also if editor/exporter is still opened WB script will run normally
- Added: Possibility of updating PENM itself in the script directly (similar to script for VPE/W7PE)
- Added: Sample profile ini file included with 2 profiles (DHCP, static) and 2 color schemes (Silver, Dark)

12.01.2009 (v34 - PENM 0.45):
- Changed: RegDelete command changed to RegWrite empty value

11.01.2009 (v33 - PENM 0.45):
- Fixed: Wrong close button text on main GUI after starting network
- Fixed: Missing status label on after minimizing main GUI
- Fixed: Missing icons under Win2003 based PE
- Fixed: Wrong parameter in driver copying process
- Fixed: GUI won't come up if minimized to tray and should restart by shortcut clicking- Fixed: Missing language string in computer ident GUI
- Changed: GUI- Added: GUI colors

16.11.2008 (v32 - PENM 0.44):
- Fixed: double function call with source XPSP3
- Fixed: fonts error after changing IP settings
- Fixed: wrong speed info sometimes in config GUI and wrong DNS in DHCP info GUI
- Changed: APIPA mode back to old behaviour (will later include an option in the profile editor)
- Added: profile reloading/changing GUI
- Added: option to set startup prompt to OnTop window

12.10.2008 (v30 - PENM 0.43):
- Fixed/Changed/Added: a lot of things since v25 (thanks to all for reporting bugs, suggestions and ideas )

01.10.2008 (v29 beta):
- Bugfixing release

20.08.2008 (v01 for VistaPE v11):
With VistaPEv12beta there are some problems I still try to solve so it just takes a little bit to make it also run with the new version.
So cause there are some internal changes there could be some other errors.
Also the WiFi-functions are again in developement - so they not much functional (it should be however possible to connect to aWEP/WPA-PSK private network - tried with Realtek USB stick).
For now you have to create at first a Wifi profile in the 'Prefered networks' tab.
After that you can also change it - in PE20 there is used then the Vista config dialog.
Others:
- Changed: again the driver copy function to work better now with VistaPE.
- Added: debug function now also available in the 'Others' tab to view easier the logfile.

12.08.2008 (v28 beta):
- Changed: some internal stuff to copy drivers (now using of SetupXXXXX-functions from setupapi.dll)

11.08.2008 (v28 beta):
- Fixed: Some things- Changed: Some internal things
- Added: Adapter advanced settings tab

26.07.2008 (v27 beta):
- Fixed: Some things
- Added:additional commands after starting network
- Added: network device speed setting
- Added: network drive mapping
- Added: starting of services even if not network card was found

09.03.2008 (v26 beta):
- Added: XP SP3 support
- Added: MAC changing
- Added: possibility to start sharing and adding users/accounts after starting network (only with using profiles)

18.11.2007 (v0.39):
- Fixed/Changed/Added: some things

18.07.2007 (v0.37):
- Changed: Only a few internal changes
- Added: Network startup countdown
- Added: IP Auto configuration - not set by default, you can set it in the script
-> if "IP Auto configuration" is enabled then if the network adapter could not getan IP from DHCP server the adapter will get the address from the class B network: 169.254.0.0(more infos here)

27.06.2007 (v0.36):
- Fixed: Stop service error
- Fixed: False service state after language switching
- Added: Logfile for processing driver copy -> a logfile is created as "%Temp%\PENMDrvCpy.txt"

22.06.2007 (v0.36):
- Fixed: Missing TABSTOP in profile selector dialog
- Fixed: Profile applying not working if TCP/IP is autostarted while installing
- Fixed: Some device detecting problems (no more other devices than network devices are tried to install)
- Changed: Some internal changes
- Changed: Removed blank password limitation for folder sharing
- Added: Autostart File Sharing- Added: Predefined network drive paths

31.05.2007 (v0.36):
- Fixed: Missed error string in folder sharing
- Fixed: Last selected language not reused after closing
- Changed: Font to DEFAULT_GUI_FONT
- Added: driver files are now also copied from subdirs of the selected driver folder
(- Added: WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW-Exstyle to inf-patching/drv-copying GUI to prevent taskbar entry)

26.05.2007 (v0.36):
- Fixed: IP changing/renewing - Unicode problems
- Fixed: Profile setting if more than 1 available network devices
- Fixed: Starting PENetwork Manager if TCPIP is already installed (i.e. manually or by other tool)
- Fixed: Language not rightly applied to adapter speed string
- Fixed: Removed initest.txt from creating while ini-patching (was just for debugging)
- Changed: Tab order in network drives dialog
- Changed: Some internal GUI stuff
- Added: Simple debug mode - file written to %Temp%\PENMDebug.txt
- Added: Buildin driver copy (cause of missing some additional driver files)

08.05.2007 (still v0.35):
- Fixed: "Profile Creator" Unicode support (also for Profile Selector on startup)
-> best is to create a new profile ini then it's automatically saved as Unicode
- Fixed: Countdown timer on profile selection doesn't stop
- Fixed: Adding of an address deletes 'Other'-tab
- Changed: DHCP-Info-GUI server entries layout- Changed: Some default values from inifile to registry cause of missing WB-unicode ini writing
- Open: "Workgroup" is not used from profile - will solve this bug later in the evening...

06.05.2007 - 2.Upd.:
- Fixed: MessageBox ANSI -> Unicode (i.e. DHCP-Info)
- Fixed: ListView controls with Unicode (tooks me half of the day;))
- Fixed: Error while shuttingdown Windows (enum network adapters false return) (thanks to thunn)
- Changed: Network drive lettes always A-Z

06.05.2007 (v0.35):
- Fixed: Missing network (dis)connect dialog in Explorer (WB-script)
- Fixed: Some missing translation
- Fixed: Missing error messages for network drive connect
- Fixed: Wrong GUI resizing while language changing
- Fixed: Wrong MRU-list number (changed from 16 to 30 max.)
- Fixed: Tray tooltip not updated on just minimizing to tray
- Fixed: Wrong limitation of username length for network drives connect
- Fixed: Profile selection countdown timer in QEMU (timer now using WM_TIMER)
- Open: String placement in DHCP-info dialog in other languages

03.05.2007 (v0.34):
- New: compiled in Unicode-Beta-Autoit-version
- Fixed: Some language depended control settings (GUI title, size, etc.)
- Fixed: Some missing translation
- Changed: Some language dependent control settings
- Added: inf-patching now buildin cause of Unicode-Autoit-version

01.05.2007 (v0.33):
- Fixed: Some wrong IP settings changings effects
- Changed: Main selection from Listview to Tabcontrol for better language support
- Added: Simple language support for the PENM (English/German included - inifiles with ".lng" extension);not profile editor yet

27.04.2007 (v0.32):
- Fixed: Selection of static DNS/WINS/DG with DHCP and static DNS/WINS/DG
- Fixed: False speed detection on disconnected device
- Fixed: Static IP selection in DHCP mode and false device restarting
- Fixed: Network drives MRU
- Changed: Share username inputbox to combobox
- Changed: GUI-redesign
- Changed: Replaced NetUserEnum by NetLocalGroupGetMembers
- Changed: Replaced selfcreated MRU procedure with CreateMRUListW, AddMRUStringW, etc.
- Changed: Profile Editor: Countdown/Default profile
- Added: Network drives used history
- Added: Mouse cursor wait icon while refreshing something (devices, shares, etc.)
- Added: Profile Editor/Profile Selector
- Added: GUI is restored if running in tray or mimized to taskbar - and starting another instance
- Open: Countdown timer doesnt work correctly in QEMU

14.02.2007 (v0.28):
- Fixed: stopping service only stopped dependend services (thanks to TheHive for info)
- Fixed: forcing/checking if "Computer Browser" is running- Removed: Msgbox for starting file sharing (username/password)
- Added: a label with info about username/password to use file sharing

11.02.2007 (v0.27):
- Fixed: missing listbox constants (exe)
- Fixed: shares -> autohiding of input fields (exe)
- Fixed: tray activities item -> checked state
- Changed: if starting "File Sharing" only just one info for putting in username/password (exe)
- Changed: server service stop message
- Changed: closing GUI with OK will not exit PENetwork if "activities showing" is activated/used
- Changed: rechanged tray icon on activities to look more like network activities icon;)
- Added: simple connection activity in tray (only 1 icon - same - like in vista) (exe/script)
- Added: small icon in shares list for reflecting hidden/normal visible shares (idea by "TheHive" - thanks )
- Added: optional "closing to tray" (not fully per script)
- Open: direct network browsing from ie. start -> run

07.02.2007 (v0.25):
- Fixed: network drives path limitation
- Fixed: network drives list too few entries
- Added: sharing of additional folders
- Added: small contextmenu to shares/drives-lists
- Added: browsing network
- Changed: automatically minimize to tray after loading

04.02.2007 (v0.23):
- Fixed: like everytime some small things, you know there is always something to fix;)
- Added: Listing of local shared drives (sharing of additional folders is in progress)
- Added: Network drives dialog (adding/deleting of network drive connections)
- Added: some ini-cmds (like i.e. enable minimizing to tray on GUI-start

31.01.2007 (v0.22):
- fast bugfix release
- Fixed: device detection should now work with LiveXP (only testes with XPSP2, W2K3SP1 crashes here)
- Fixed: registering of netcfgx.dll only if it is not registered (did the registering every time)
- Changed: only 1 instance of the GUI will be running

30.01.2007 (v0.22):- Fixed: some;)
- Fixed: only applying changes to the system if there are some
- Fixed: "workgroup" was reseted to "workgroup" on every start
- Added (script): extract-button to only extract the exe;for the future if there are more changes to the exe than the script itself
- Changed (script): moved automatically starting of PENetwork to Startmenu/Autostart-group- Added (exe): setting computername/workgroup should now work

27.01.2007 (v0.21):
- Published new version
- Fixed some bugs- Added File sharing and simple ping

22./23.01.2007 (v0.21):
- File sharing is finished, needs some minimal optimization but works.

21.01.2007 (v0.21):
- File sharing is working so far 'standalone' - ready to implement

20.01.2007 (v0.21):
- File sharing is in progress
- Ping() is finished so far

Script-screenshot:


Screenshots of PENM at work:
Silver and Dark color scheme:


Some older:

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Posted 18 January 2007 - 11:46 PM

Thanks for the release.


When you click on the ok button it doesnt close the PE Network Manager. I used the x close button to close the PE Net Manager.


Excellent! it works.

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Posted 18 January 2007 - 11:54 PM

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When you click on the ok button it doesnt close the PE Network Manager.

One of the: "not all features enabled" / "bug fixing"

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Posted 18 January 2007 - 11:58 PM

Holger, on Jan 18 2007, 05:54 PM, said:

One of the: "not all features enabled" / "bug fixing"

Yeah! Thats why Im reporting it. Not a bad bug but hey its the first one I saw. Atleast I can browse using this method.

We are off to a great start.

Tested on nativeEx Project using Winbuilder53 beta 14. I had to add Vmware Scripts from LiveXP Project.

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Posted 19 January 2007 - 12:30 AM

It works under LiveXP also.

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Posted 19 January 2007 - 10:11 AM

houston, we have lift off..

will get a test machine and try it out on real hardware too!

Great work!

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 05:35 PM

Holger, just tested PEnetwork - unfortunately my portuguese source is still not compatible (shell32.dll issue) so it auto-started the detection of qemu's NIC - should be fixed soon..

Your script is very complete - really adds most needed tools, ipconfig still complained about a missing netshell.dll

Will also test phox's driverpack to see if it adds the missing dll.

A suggestion: can you make PEnetwork support multi-language through an INI style file?

This would really help others who don't understand english.

Excellent work - Thanks for this release!

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 05:56 PM

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 06:29 PM

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 06:58 PM

@Nuno/Peter: there will an extra option for using "ipconfig" and "ping" with some more details (like the one which is already there) - these tools will not be included by default (simple ping is now build'in).

@Nuno: the language is already changable with a 'language-ini' - but not completed with all strings (cause there are always some new at this time) - so I didn't publish it (the german sample).

Next update I plan at the end of this week (hopefully, maybe a little bit earlier )
So long...
Holger

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 07:05 PM

Holger, on Jan 22 2007, 07:58 PM, said:

@Nuno: the language is already changable with a 'language-ini' - but not completed with all strings (cause there are always some new at this time) - so I didn't publish it (the german sample).

That will be the first INTL application here
Besides what I'm trying with nativeEX this is the second part of an 'universal' product!

BTW @Nuno: What about a script command to read strings from <script>_<language>.ini?

Peter

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 09:21 AM

Do you mean adding support for non-english speakers?

Why not? Perhaps a good approach would be using a standard table of values and then replace the values with the ones corresponding on each language - but inside the script engine this would likely increase the dosage of variables and make other scripts be like tweaks and settings regarding vars - really intensive use..

This is actually a matter of optimizing this process, I'll be trying to improve this soon - Adding language support on winbuilder itself would also be good - these are nice ideas to work on..

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 09:06 AM

Thanks thuun for information.
Will do some tests later in the evening with 2k3.
The language thing was one that I did expect.

Can you or another one please send me one of the localized inf-files per PM in your language?
English and German I have by myself so I don't need them.

Thanks and greets
Holger

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 10:07 PM

Holger, on Jan 24 2007, 04:06 AM, said:

Thanks thuun for information.
Will do some tests later in the evening with 2k3.
The language thing was one that I did expect.

Can you or another one please send me one of the localized inf-files per PM in your language?
English and German I have by myself so I don't need them.

Thanks and greets
Holger

If you can develop a patch for multiple languages, I'd really be impressed. Having the user supply those two infs may be the most full proof way to get it to work, so...guess I'll stick with that.
I was thinking about something earlier today... Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool that would convert a text file into 'script' code so developers could recreate the file line by line at build time, making changes as nessessary? It wouldn't be hard to parse and write the lines one by one, just a thought, maybe there's already something, dunno. Anyway, rock on.

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Posted 24 January 2007 - 11:56 PM

thunn, on Jan 24 2007, 09:07 PM, said:

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Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool that would convert a text file into 'script' code so developers could recreate the file line by line at build time, making changes as nessessary? It wouldn't be hard to parse and write the lines one by one, just a thought, maybe there's already something, dunno. Anyway, rock on.

Yes, it was added already - look inside the latest beta 14 - there's a new section called "Tools" where you find a file converter wich can be used for bartPE plugins and plain text files just as you've mentioned.

bartPE support is still quite incomplete, but text convert works good enough..

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Posted 25 January 2007 - 04:02 AM

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Posted 25 January 2007 - 11:32 AM

@pohx: You mean like a "take the driver from a cab-file"-thing, don't you?
The problem is, that the drivers has to be in the system32\drivers-directory.

However, does anyone has a non-ansi-Windows-version and can provide me a localized version of the file "nettcpip.inf" (english and german I have by myself)?
Yesterday I tried some things with a small selfcreated cmdline "inipatch" which also supports unicode writing.
There is still a problem with adding a string like "initwritetextline"...

Thanks and greets
Holger

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Posted 25 January 2007 - 02:15 PM

phox, on Jan 25 2007, 02:58 PM, said:

Exactly!
It is just important to have them in compressed form.

As i said before, not cab, zip! If we add the 'build in zip functionality' then there is no difference between a folder and a zip archive to windows. Alternatively maybe one could upx all the files and drivers?

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Posted 27 January 2007 - 04:43 AM

New version available (see first post).
The language thing is one open thing I hope to manage when I have finished the "inipatch"-cmdline utility.
Greets and happy testing
Holger

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Posted 27 January 2007 - 09:40 AM

Holger, on Jan 27 2007, 03:43 AM, said:

New version available (see first post).
The language thing is one open thing I hope to manage when I have finished the "inipatch"-cmdline utility.
Greets and happy testing
Holger

Initial testing in qEmu on LiveXP made from English XPSP2 with WB5314:

1. The same problem with StartMenu shortcut as before.

2. If you answer “OK” after detection the connection closes!

3. Automatic detection is now working but not properly: in order to let
explorer to finish showing the shortcuts it is necessary to answer “OK”
after detection and then there is the problem from point 2.

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Posted 27 January 2007 - 11:18 AM

@phox: thanks for info
Now I understand.
Will check now where the problem is...

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Posted 27 January 2007 - 11:30 AM

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