[script]PENetwork

Posted 11 February 2007 - 08:12 PM

Sounds a really good idea, happy brain storming!

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Posted 11 February 2007 - 09:52 PM

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 05:31 AM

@TheHive: don't understand what you mean with "...prompt about needing one"?
Thats just an info message to let you know that you need to input a username first before you can connect with shares on the WinPE.

"Whats the difference between Sharing and Network Drives"? - this is a joke question, isn't it?

With the stopping I will do some tests later...

Thanks so far
Holger

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 07:14 AM

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 11:30 AM

"Shared Folders" are the folders that you share for others.
"Network Drives" are folders that others shared for you.
So I would explain these.

With the sharing: maybe I will completely remove the messagebox and make only a tooltip with that info...

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 11:44 AM

For shared folders you just have to enter the path using \\ as in: \\myComputer\docs or the IP adress.

For network drives you will assign a drive letter on your computer that will link to the network share - this is very usefull for software that doesn't support network names, so that we can use network files as if they were placed on our disk..

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 07:12 PM

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 08:52 PM

@TheHive: now I understand what you mean with the "stopping"-problem.
Sorry, sometimes I don't/cant't understand it correctly.
The problem was in the internal stopping function - the depended services stopped but the service itself not - only if it was the only service to stop (normally "Computer Browser" should always be started - read next line)

There is also/still a problem which I try to fix - sometimes the "Computer Browser" service do not start - even if it should...

Next version should be available tomorrow evening.

Thanks so far
Holger

BTW: with VISTA this is the first time I can browse the Internet over WLAN while communicate with my 2nd PC over LAN at the same time

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 09:46 PM

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 10:55 PM

So its working with Vista PE also.

No idea, what I meant was just normal working under Vista
On my system with XP installed earlier I never had a chance to use both interfaces (WLAN and LAN) at the same time - now it seems to be no problem here...
I use my 2nd PC for testing thatswhy - I use a crossed connection to my default PC.

VistaPE-testing comes later - as I had written (if it is still needed then)...

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 05:48 AM

I did a test today with network browsing at work and so on:
Works like expected
Don't know what the problem could be in private locations...
I can browse the whole domain and the servers/computers in it.
Also it is working browsing over Start -> Run.
"DNSCache I will not activate again, cause after that ComputerRenaming it seems it takes to much time to change the entries on the DNS servers - works also without it.
The "ComputerBrowser" ends also normally after a few minutes - like on a normal XP-PC, however, network browsing is just working normal.
So I will just take back the DNSCache service.
I think I had been easier if I had first test it here ar work where you really can browse networks/domain...
So long...
Holger
Edit: nothing more right now...next version are coming in maybe 21 hours

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Posted 14 February 2007 - 09:02 PM

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Posted 15 February 2007 - 08:26 AM

Thanks for update. Have a good vacation.

What happens if you just click on the Start button without inputing a username or password.
I ask because you can just click on the Start button without a username and or password and sharing starts.


Update to upper question: Is this right
I can browse my own Shared drives.
On real PC your asked for Username and password. I see why you recommend atleast a username.


Pressing the Stop works this time. It stoped the Browsing service properly when using no username and password.

after trying to browse to the Workgroup from a real PC and being asked for username and password and then cancelling this login window. Then closing the Real PC My Network Places and then Pressing the Stop button on the PNM I get an error message. After clicking the ok button the Running is still active. Trying to stop it again stops the service.

Update: I just noticed the Warning message telling me it might take some time from starting and stoping the service to fast.



I read the Note part wrong. I was thinking that you could use only username and a blank password. lol! I tried it and it didnt work. So I would recommend update to:
Note: to connect to the shares of this host.
You have to at least enter a username and a nonblank password.

Now I can see my shares from VMware on my Real PC.


The Sharing is running.
If I open the PNM gui and then click close and PNM closes. I restart PNM and the username and password are gone. Im not able to stop the service even when its giving me a message that it is "Finished". I left it alone for a while and then tried to stop it again. This time it stops.

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Posted 15 February 2007 - 11:34 AM

Thanks for feedback again
So long...
Holger

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Posted 18 February 2007 - 11:12 PM

Sorry if I missed something (maybe it was discussed already). I added my Intel ® PRO/Wireless Lan 2100 3b Mini PCI adapter drivers to my build and I was able to see wireless connection points with Network Stumbler!

I couldn't connect to them because they are protected by passwords. But it is an interesting feature

Can somebody else check with other wireless devices if it is working? I'll check it with two or three more when I get to my office later.

If it is working it would be greate to have a small facility to enter a user name and a password to connect to WiFi network


I was also trying to adopt PPPoE pluging from BartPE and a few starting steps are good but then it complains that RASMAN can't be started with current configuration I think this is needed for Dial-Up support too?
The script uses netcfg.exe from WinPE. Is it possible to use startnet.exe for replacing it?

Not directly related to the topic but there is a very interesting and free RasPPPoe protocol installation tool (this protocol is used by a lot of ADSL providers around the world). If somebody can make a script with this protocol that would be great!

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Posted 23 February 2007 - 10:24 PM

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Posted 23 February 2007 - 11:40 PM

Wifi would be nice.. Where I work everyone jumped in to wireless really quick because it do makes life easier.

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Posted 24 February 2007 - 02:13 PM

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 03:39 PM

I'm rebuilding the GUI-interface at the moment to have a place for WIFI-using.
I did some tests with the WLANAPI-patch.
So, in a/the new script there will be a link to download first the WLANAPI-patch from MS cause the API of the existing wzscapi is really not really documented

@sepa: do you also try to connect it with a real username, cause in WinPE the default user is "SYSTEM".

I will further testing with the new version and so on when I'm back - in 1 1/2 weeks.

So long...
Greets
Holger

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 05:13 PM

@Holger,

The 'Network Places' folder gets content if you add

RegHiveLoad,"WB-Default","%TargetDir%\i386\system32\config\default"

RegWrite,"HKLM","0x4","WB-Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","WebView","0"

RegHiveUnLoad,"WB-Default"

to your script.

Peter

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 07:38 PM

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Posted 25 February 2007 - 07:46 PM

Holger
Your script is great!

Some time ago I found a topic on MSFN.ORG about Unattended WiFi WEP passwods. I'm attaching some files I downloaded that time and there is AutoIt script inside. Have a look, maybe it could be usefull for WiFi stuff

Attached Files

•  AutoWEP0.3.zip   9.99KB   836 downloads

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Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:52 PM

Thanks, will take a look later...

Edit: here is a small preview of the things I'm working on.
Some other changes/fixes are also done, like network drives history and for network shares user history...
For WiFi it will take a while cause I will work on it again if I'm back home cause I cannot do some things(Programming/scripting/testing) here...

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Posted 26 February 2007 - 07:06 PM

Will it also accept WPA and WPA2 encryption?

Your new UI looks good!

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Posted 09 March 2007 - 11:43 AM

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