Static IP Address no worky

[winbatch]

I've got an unattended Server 2003 disk created using XPCREATE. It works great, installs all of my hotfixes and registry tweaks and pretty much does what I'm looking for with one exception: The adapter keeps defaulting to DHCP even though the WINNT.SIF I created (using setupmgr) specifies a static IP address and DHCP=No.

Any thoughts? It's obviously seeing my WINNT.SIF cuz other parts of it complete properly.

Thanks!

winbatch

Here's my WINNT.SIF

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]    AutoPartition=0

    MsDosInitiated="0"

    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

    UnattendMode=FullUnattended

    OemSkipEula=Yes

    OemPreinstall=Yes

    TargetPath=\WINDOWS

    FileSystem=*

    Repartition=No

    WaitForReboot=No

    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

   

[GuiUnattended]

    AdminPassword=*

    AutoLogon=Yes

    AutoLogonCount=2

    OEMSkipRegional=1

    TimeZone=20

    OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

    ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

    FullName="M. A. Mortenson Company"

    OrgName="M. A. Mortenson Company"

    ComputerName=MSP2003SERVER

[LicenseFilePrintData]

    AutoMode=PerSeat

[TapiLocation]

    CountryCode=1

    Dialing=Tone

    AreaCode=763

    LongDistanceAccess="9"

[RegionalSettings]

    LanguageGroup=1

[branding]

    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

    Home_Page=http://www.mydomain.com

    Help_Page=http://mydomain/helpdesk

    Search_Page=http://www.google.com

[Proxy]

    Proxy_Enable=0

    Use_Same_Proxy=1

[identification]

    JoinDomain=DOMAIN

    DomainAdmin=DOMAIN\UserName

    DomainAdminPassword=password

[Networking]

    InstallDefaultComponents=No

[NetAdapters]

    Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]

    INFID=*

[NetClients]

    MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]

    MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[NetProtocols]

    MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]

    DNS=No

    UseDomainNameDevolution=No

    EnableLMHosts=Yes

    AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]

    SpecificTo=Adapter1

    DHCP=No

    IPAddress=10.1.5.1

    SubnetMask=255.255.248.0

    DefaultGateway=10.1.0.1

    DNSServerSearchOrder=10.1.5.1

    WINS=Yes

    WinsServerList=10.1.5.1

    NetBIOSOptions=0

    DNSDomain=MYDOMAIN.COM

[Noise]

Welp, looks fine to me. I see nothing wrong with it. Do you have more than one NIC in this PC you're building?

[MasterControl]

Here's a little reference...Compare to yours

[Networking]

This section contains no entries. However, to configure network protocols during an unattended setup, you must include the [Networking] section name in your answer file. In addition, you must include additional sections that describe your network adapters, protocols to be installed, and static IP address information.

To adhere to Server Clusters Best Practices, you must follow the following guidelines when configuring networking:

Use at least two interconnects. Although a server cluster can function with only one interconnect, at least two interconnects are necessary to eliminate a single point of failure and are required for the verification of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) clusters.

Reserve one network exclusively for internal node-to-node communication (the private network).

Do not use teaming network adapters on the private networks.

Use static IP addresses for each network adapter on each node.

For a complete list of instructions for Networking Best Practices, please refer to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Server Online Help/Availability and Scalability/Cluster Servers.

Use the following entries in unattend.txt to implement the Networking Best Practices recommendations:

[NetAdapters]

;list your network adapters here

Adapter01 = params.Adapter01

Adapter02 = params.Adapter02

Next, you need to uniquely identify each network adepter. You can either use the INFID entry where you need to specify the Plug and Play IDs of your network adapters, or the NetCardAddress entry to specify MAC addresses. You need to run a special tool called pnpids.exe from Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit to retrieve the PnP IDs for your network cards. For computers with multiple adapters of the same type (that is, the Plug and Play ID for each is the same), you must specify the NetCardAddress or PCI location information. If you do not specify the NetCardAddress or PCI location, only the first adapter enumerated/detected that matches the PnP ID receives the answer file entries.

If you specify the NetCardAddress or PCI location, Setup does not use the INFID entry because it is the least specific entry.

Therefore, we recommend that you simply identify your network cards by their MAC addresses as follows:

[params.Adapter01]

NetCardAddress = 0x0002A5D0510F

[params.Adapter02]

NetCardAddress = 0x000476D5F57D

;Install Client for MS Networks

[NetClients]

MS_MSClient = params.MS_MSClient

[params.MS_MSClient]

;Specify which network protocols to install

[NetProtocols]

MS_TCPIP = params.MS_TCPIP

;TCP/IP properties

[params.MS_TCPIP]

AdapterSections = params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter01, params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter02

Now we need to configure both network cards with static IP address information. Following Cluster Networking Best Practices recommendations, for private networks, we need to define the TCP/IP properties for static IP addresses by specifying a class A, B, or C private address and a subnet mask.

For a public cluster network, we need to specify a static IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS and WINS entries.

;Adapter01 is used for intra-cluster communication.

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter01]

DHCP = No

IPAddress = 172.24.23.91

SpecificTo = Adapter01

SubnetMask = 255.255.0.0

WINS = No

;Adapter02 represents a public network

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter02]

DefaultGateway = 157.6.8.1

DHCP = No

IPAddress = 157.5.4.1

SpecificTo = Adapter02

SubnetMask = 255.255.252.0

DNSServerSearchOrder = 157.5.0.1,157.6.0.2

WINS = Yes

WINSServerList = 157.5.0.1,157.5.1.2

[MasterControl]

Look at the order of your dhcp command, and compare it to the article i posted...Might not make a difference, but i would put them in order as specified.

[ChrisBaksa]

If you have more than one adapter in this machine you need to specify the Adapter the IP gets assigned to.

[params.Adapter1]

PCIBusNumber=10

PCIDeviceNumber=2

PCIFunctionNumber=0

INFID=PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1645&SUBSYS_007C0E11&REV_15\3&172E68DD&0&10

Chris