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Apologies for the post immediately below this one. It's the solution to a different problem, and it works. But here is the solution to the problem originally posed: LABEL boot-harddrive MENU LABEL Boot Hard Drive KERNEL pxelinux.0 APPEND - DHCP has already set the tftpboot root directory where pxelinux.0 resides in the dhcp-root-path statement. Assuming the bios defaults to the network, the network hands it pxelinux.0 which is a similar bootloader to what it would have gotten if it had gone to the hard drive in the first place. This is handy if you want to install from the network and not have the installer's reboots result in starting the install process over again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi All, I've gotten some good information by reading material here, but it seems like the posts/answers ratio is not high. Anybody have any thoughts about this? In some respects it's good because we don't have a lot of people providing answers who don't know what they're talking about. On the other hand, some things like this one are not rocket science. Was the list telling me to RTFInternet? The solution was: LABEL Vista MENU LABEL Vista KERNEL http://path-to-installer-image/startrom.0 APPEND - You need to use gPXE. Go to www.etherboot.org for the rest of the procedure. Hi Folks, I have a working Vista installation which boots into the "D" partition, partition 2 of hd0, or sd0. If I just power up the machine with the network unplugged, Vista comes up fine. I also have a PXE boot setup that boots to a menu.c32 menu on which one of the choices is the already-installed Vista on "D". I would like to be able to use that menu to boot the installed Vista. The menu.cfg entry is: LABEL Vista MENU LABEL Vista COM32 chain.c32 APPEND boot ntldr=/bootmgr I've also tried KERNEL chain.c32 in place of COM32. When it boots it says chain.c32. OK Cannot read Master Boot Record Any suggestions? Thanks John

Thanks, amit_talkin, That's an interesting and useful tool you came up with-- I'm going to try it as soon as I'm done with my Vista problem. The problem I described I was able to set aside for now by changing my LogPath entry in the autounattend.xml from c:\install.log to c:\log. It was one of the many strange solutions I found on the web that seemed unrelated but it worked. Now I have a new one, and will post it.

Hi MSFN, I managed to create an unattended vista ultimate install dvd using WAIK and Firegeier's vu_batchs. Works flawlessly. Now I would like to copy it to a spare partition on my hard drive and boot the installer off of that partition. I got the partition to boot by xcopying all the files from the .iso to an ntfs-formatted, active partition. It didn't work until I used MBRwiz to repair the MBR. Now it boots from the installer partiton and proceeds until it says "CD/DVD Device Driver is missing". I looked in the drivers directory in the .iso and there is nothing there. But it works fine when I install the same .iso from dvd. I started with the en_windows_vista_enterprise_sp2_x86_dvd_342329.iso image. Looking at the postings, a lot of people have seen this error and fixed it many different ways, but none that I've seen started with a working .iso and the failure occurred after attempting to move it to a hd partition. I plan to try it from a USB stick, just to see if that works, and also try it on a few other computers to gain some clues. I want to be able to do bare-metal reinstalls rather than simple reimaging. Can anyone suggest a more scientific approach to this? Thanks in advance Sealnose

Thanks, cluberti, I looked at the Python versions. Once I had them all at v2.6, I found that I no longer had any problems interworking between Vista and Windows 2K08. Also, an RPC client on Ubuntu 2.8, Python 2.6 worked with the Vista RPC listener, Python 2.6. However, a Fedora FC8, Python 2.6 would not work against the same Vista RPC listener. I captured the network traffic for both. For the first 8 relevant frames, everything looks identical. Then, on the 9th and 10th frames, the Vista machine sends two identical multicast packets to 224.0.0.252, about a tenth of a second apart. Wireshark calls them llmnr packets, Link Local Multicast Name Resolution. There is never any response to them, and Vista apparently waits 5 seconds for an answer before carrying on. W2K08 doesn't do this. I tried putting the info for all hosts involved in Vista's LMHOSTS - no improvement. I tried disabling Vista's "Network Discovery" services, which for some reason re-enabled the firewall and stopped all networking. Why does it need to do any name resolution? I'm using IP addresses. IPV6 and all other protocols except TCPIP V4 are is turned off in the control panel/network and sharing/manage network interfaces tool. I think if I could get Vista not to send these packets it might not wait for an answer. One of them follows below, with my IP address partially x'd out. LNo. Time Source Destination Protocol Info port: 60064 Destination port: llmnr Frame 14 (86 bytes on wire, 86 bytes captured) Arrival Time: Nov 27, 2008 11:50:19.523621000 [Time delta from previous captured frame: 0.019725000 seconds] [Time delta from previous displayed frame: 0.019725000 seconds] [Time since reference or first frame: 4.522034000 seconds] Frame Number: 14 Frame Length: 86 bytes Capture Length: 86 bytes [Frame is marked: False] [Protocols in frame: eth:ip:udp:data] [Coloring Rule Name: UDP] [Coloring Rule String: udp] (01:00:5e:00:00:fc) Destination: IPv4mcast_00:00:fc (01:00:5e:00:00:fc) Address: IPv4mcast_00:00:fc (01:00:5e:00:00:fc) st) default) Source: Supermic_9b:28:ce (00:30:48:9b:28:ce) Address: Supermic_9b:28:ce (00:30:48:9b:28:ce) .... ...0 .... .... .... .... = IG bit: Individual address (unicast) .... ..0. .... .... .... .... = LG bit: Globally unique address (factory default) default) Type: IP (0x0800) .252) Version: 4 Header length: 20 bytes Differentiated Services Field: 0x00 (DSCP 0x00: Default; ECN: 0x00) 0000 00.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Default (0x00) .... ..0. = ECN-Capable Transport (ECT): 0 .... ...0 = ECN-CE: 0 Total Length: 72 Identification: 0x3442 (13378) Flags: 0x00 0... = Reserved bit: Not set .0.. = Don't fragment: Not set ..0. = More fragments: Not set Fragment offset: 0 Time to live: 1 Protocol: UDP (0x11) Header checksum: 0x460d [correct] [Good: True] [bad : False] Source: xxx.xxx.xxx.14 (xxx.xxx.xxx.14) Destination: 224.0.0.252 (224.0.0.252) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 60064 (60064), Dst Port: llmnr (5355) Source port: 60064 (60064) Destination port: llmnr (5355) Length: 52 Checksum: 0x19ea [correct] [Good Checksum: True] [bad Checksum: False] Data (44 bytes) Data: 916300000001000000000000023131033134330237350332... 0000 01 00 5e 00 00 fc 00 30 48 9b 28 ce 08 00 45 00 ..^....0H.(...E. 0010 00 48 34 42 00 00 01 11 46 0d cf 4b 8f 0e e0 00 .H4B....F..K.... 0020 00 fc ea a0 14 eb 00 34 19 ea 91 63 00 00 00 01 .......4...c.... 0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 31 31 03 xx xx xx xx xx xx .......11.xxx.xx 0040 xx xx xx xx 07 69 6e 2d 61 64 64 72 04 61 72 70 .xxx.in-addr.arp 0050 61 00 00 0c 00 01 a..... ^LNo. Time Source Destination Protocol Info port: 60064 Destination port: llmnr Thanks for your thoughts!!

Thanks, cluberti, for the fast response. I haven't tried it with XP SP3. I'm sure I don't have an antivirus or firewall. No AV was installed. It's a brand new install and the Security Center is all red bars and warnings. I can ping it, telnet to it, and rdp into it. Netstat says it's listening on 9090. Both the RPC service and the Locater service are enabled/automatic/started, running as local services. Windows defender is disabled. I tried rebooting the Vista machine. However, this is interesting: I tried using a W2K08 machine instead of linux as a client and it worked fine. So, linux--->linux is fine, W2K08--> Vista is fine, linux-->Vista is slow.

Hello All, I have a small python listener agent and requestor script, which is part of the Python demo. You start up the listener with a port to listen on, and thereafter you can send it a request, i.e. you give it two numbers to add and it returns the sum. With a linux listener on one machine and linux requestor on another, I get the response immediately. With a Vista listener, I get the response immediately if I request it on the same machine, but not from the other machine on the network. Linux requestor to Vista listener takes ~ 5 seconds or more. When I sniff the network, I can see that the listener acknowledges the requestor within a second. Then it sits there for 5 more seconds, then completes the transaction. I can't see any evidence of a name resolution problem on the sniffer. Netbios has been disabled at the network configuration tool in the control panel. The NetBT service is running, but I don't see any evidence on the sniffer that it is making any requests. In any case, I'm using IP numbers not names. So it seems to be very slow, but only when there is a network between the listener and requestor. The ping time between them is 1.7 ms, using the name. I don't know where to look. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Thanks, cluberti for your fast response. Let me elaborate: Starting from an uninstalled situation, I get this, as expected: C:\Users\Administrator>sc query telnet-server [sC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060: The specified service does not exist as an installed service. So I install it as you suggested: C:\Users\Administrator>servermanagercmd -I Telnet-Server Start Installation... [installation] Succeeded: [Telnet Server]. <100/100> Success: Installation succeeded. Now I check the status: C:\Users\Administrator>sc query telnet-server [sC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060: The specified service does not exist as an installed service. OK, looking in the services window I can see it has a new name: C:\Users\Administrator>sc query tlntsvr SERVICE_NAME: tlntsvr TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS STATE : 1 STOPPED WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 1077 (0x435) SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0) CHECKPOINT : 0x0 WAIT_HINT : 0x0 Now the problem is to enable it, from the command line. How? Evidently enabling is different than starting. What's the command for enabling? C:\Users\Administrator>net start tlntsvr System error 1058 has occurred. The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has n o enabled devices associated with it. If I start it with the gui, I get the end result I want as shown below, but I need to do it with a script. C:\Users\Administrator>sc query tlntsvr SERVICE_NAME: tlntsvr TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS STATE : 4 RUNNING (STOPPABLE, PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN) WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0) SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0) CHECKPOINT : 0x0 WAIT_HINT : 0x0 Thanks, sealnose

Can someone tell me how to enable telnet server in Windows Server 2008 **from the command line** if it has been installed but when you look in the services\properties for it it is disabled? I've tried net start, servermanagercmd, and ocsetup and the command won't succeed because it's disabled. I've been able to make FTP server work but not telnet. Thanks very much.