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After reading that i got confused. It doesn't say where to call RunOnceEx.com from. I can call RunOnceEx from svcpack.inf, from cmdlines.txt or i can call it from [setupParams] Does it matter?

Ok, i'm a little confused. Where does RunOnceEx.cmd actually go? In svcpack.inf, cmdlines.txt or in SetupParams ? Does it matter, or is it simply a choice? Thanks.

The problem is that i don't have visual basic to create a .cab file so i'm looking around for a good software to create one.

I will try this and will let you know if it works. Working on it right now...

Another question. During the Text setup, how does windows look into drivers.cab and extracts what it needs. Thanks for your help.

Hi and thanks for your reply. Your suggestion however, does not create an organized structure for folders. What i'd like to do is within 000_network folder have different subfolders named dellgx270, 280, 290 etc which should have only network driver files. This however cannot be done because windows does not seem to scan subfolders. So, how about if i create a .cab file with all the subfolders within. Would this work? Then i can simply point winnt.sif to OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000_network\myDrivers.cab. This cab file will have all the organized subfolders in it. Is this possible? Thanks.

Hi. Assuming i have the following directory structure: $OEM$ --------> $1 ---------> Drivers --------->000_network And within the 000_network folder i have another folder called Dell and in my Winnt.sif i have the following entry: OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000_network, then i get a BSOD with: session3 initialization failed why i try this CD in one of my DELL-s. I assumed that by pointing the Winnt.sif to 000_network folder, it will look in the subfolder also. I guess i assumed wrong. However this presents a problem if you want to put 30 different drivers in ONE folder, because you don't know which is which. So i'm trying to keep things organized and name things properly. Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this problem? Thanks.

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HI. First i'd like to thank the owner of this site for putting together this extensive guide for Windows unattended setup. My question: If you want to join a machine to the domain, in winnt.sif or unattended.txt the password for the account that joins the machine to the domain is unencrypted. From what i've been reading lately, NETDOM can be used (maybe with a script ) to encrypt the password of the account that joins machines to the domain. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm kind of confused right now how to implement this. Leaving the password unencrypted is totally unaccepted in our corporate enviroment. Thank you.