bradgentry

todo.pl is bouncing the system, it gets ready to shutdown and tries to close cmd.exe, but an error window pops up telling me that it cannot end cmd.exe, thus the progress hangs until I tell it what to do (or not to do) with the error and error report. Any ideas? If you need more info, tell me how and what you need

I'm sorry, that part of the installer is running in CIFS, not Samba

Yeah, it's from a netboot. I'm trying to get both XP SP2 and SP3 to work with this driver in the pool

The long filename copies just fine. The problem comes in when the Windows installer running under Samba looks for a specific long filename but can't find it because it's reading the filenames in 8.3. So, I think the solution isn't to change the Windows registry, b/c Windows isn't running when it's being installed. How can I make Samba read the long filename?

thx for the replies, guys. Can the long filenames really be enabled for the installation section? I thought it had something to do with the XP install being somewhat based on DOS and therefore it wouldn't be easily possible. But if what I've been told is the case, that's great news

Our Unattended works great except for one flaw. Along with all the other setup data, some extra drivers are copied to the hard drive so they won't have to be installed manually or using AutoIT after the GUI comes up. After the Windows installation begins and is running, it gives me a Copy Error, unable to find file amdpcom32.dll. It gives me the option to browse for the driver, where I can see that the installation sees the file as AMDPC~P2.DL_. If I fiddle with this filename a little bit, renaming it, I can make the installation accept it and continue, but that's not automated, of course. I'm pretty sure it's not working just because amdpcom32 is 9 characters long, violating the 8.3 filename protocol. So, while it's looking for a file named amdpcom32.dll verbatim, when it looks for files, the file is read as amdpc~p2.dll, so it misses it entirely. What can I do about this to make it fully automated? Thanks