I came across this exact same problem myselfy a couple of weeks ago. Michael Niehaus from Microsoft managed to help me out with this one. The solution is to make sure that the account you are logging into RIS with has only READ access to the reminst share. It would appear that read/write access allows the first machine to lock the WMI repository, so when the second pc tries to access the repository, it cant find it (lockerd by the first pc). When the account logged into RIS/Winpe with only has read access, the repository is available for both/multiple machines to read. Also, if the accounts used to login to RIS has read/write access, this allows Windows PE to create temporary files on the remote install share, which can cause issues. Doug
