Problem with dtutil hanging

I am using a script to copy a number of packages (50+) from my desktop computer (file system) to a remote server (MSDB). The script works fine, but I can never get through the entire script without it hanging up. Some times only 3-4 packages get copied, sometimes a lot more. If I close the windows cmd window and restart at the point it hung, it continues, but usually hangs up again. If you repeat this 2 or 3 times, it eventually gets all of the packages copied. It does not always hang at the same point. I have tried doing the copies with "quiet" mode - overwriting the existing packages and I have tried first deleting the packages, then copying - doesn't make a difference. I have also tried moving the packages to a couple of different installations of SQL Server 2005 using the script - the remote one and the local one on my desktop - same thing on both.

If I have the script echo a message just after each copy, the message just after the last successful copy never appears (and I know the copy is successful, because I deleted all the packages first and have checked that the package is there after the script hangs).

The copy command I am using look like this:

dtutil /FILE %1 /Decrypt %3 /Encrypt SQL;%~n1;2;%3 /DestServer %4 /DestUser admincis /DestPassword %2 /quiet
ECHO Done deploying package %~n1

%1 is the file spec of the ".dtsx" file to be copied

%2 is the password of the user account on the server

%3 is the encryption password (same one used on both ends)

%4 is the name of the server being copied to

Any ideas?

Jane Gaby

One addition to my original post. I just tried this from a different computer - copied the .dtsx files over and the scripts and ran from there with no problem - no hangup. The computer I used was another server, not a desktop. Anyway it looks like the problem is perhaps with my desktop.

Jane Gaby