StuckInTexas

I use an app called setres.exe. It uses a very simple command line interface: http://sedivy.com/utils/#setres

I have been having this exact same issue doing nearly the same thing you have been trying and getting the same results. It appears randomly. I hesitate to mark the board as failed for 2 reasons: 1) ANY other OS works correctly on the unit under test. I have no issues mapping the drive. 2) The host system with XP has 2 NICs, one on a static IP to the UUT, and the other is DHCP going to our network. When I get that error, if I immediately try to connect using the domain credentials for the other NIC card, it maps. Weird stuff. Any ideas?

I have an issue that I can't seem to resolve easily. I have an XP system where the Ethernet Adapter Hardware ID (as listed in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces) can change due to different cards being placed in the system. The current behavior is that when that HWID changes to a value that the system has never seen before, it defaults to DHCP. The problem is that I need that address to be static (ie 192.168.0.2), since there is no DHCP server attached to local network. It eventually sets itself to 169.254.0.x This would be fine if the XP installation stayed on the system, but we periodically push images of the installation to the system. This would mean that I would have to create a new image for every HWID varient that we might see. This would be very time consuming. I can create batch files that uses netsh to detect an autoconfigure IP and force the correct static IP. The problem is that when XP boots, the timeout for DHCP is pretty long 30-60 seconds. Then I have to wait for the static IP to attach, and then wait even longer for XP to re-establish the connection to the mapped drive that I use. All in all, this process takes about 1-2 minutes. Questions: Can I completely disable DHCP, so that any new adapter will default to either a static IP or no IP and not wait for a non-existant DHCP server? (I have already tried disabling the DCHP Service, but that did not help) Is there any way to use IP Autoconfiguration, but define my own IP address? (I see how I can set this on a per interface basis, but not how to set a default for all interfaces.) Requirements: Yes, I have to use WindowsXP Yes, I have to use images

If you try and run 16-bit apps under PE you get this message...

I ran into the same problem. It was really weird, because the INF files were there, but it just would not load the driver information into the registry, under HKLM. Here is how I got around it: 1) Start the parallel port service: net start parpor 2) Use devcon (from MS) to install the inf file (that is already on the machine) to the parallel port. devcon install x:\windows\inf\msports.inf ACPI\PNP0400 After I do those two steps, all my parallel port programs work perfectly.