hello folks is it possible to password protect WDS somehow

you can boot to vista pe without any login info and once it loads the batch screen

you can probably format the whole drive or something

help?

Hi!

U can setup WDS so that u need to authenticate once u try to access the install images kept on the WDS when booted into WinPE 2.0..... that would be the default scenario.

And the part where u wanna format the drives can be done in two ways..... mount and edit the boot.wim file, then edit the startnet.cmd batch file to perform the actions u want to have in there... this would be the "old" approach..... the new would be to create a .xml file (using WAIK/WSIM) for the boot image that u r using to boot from (WinPE 2.0), then in the Windows PE section u can perform the custom disk operations prior to the installation of the image. I think the values for disk operations can be found in the unattend.chm file that comes with the WAIK! They would look something like:

<DiskConfiguration>
				<Disk wcm:action="add">
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>false</Extend>
							<Size>3000</Size>
						</CreatePartition>
						<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
							<Order>2</Order>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>VistaBoot</Label>
							<Letter>H</Letter>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Extend>false</Extend>
						</ModifyPartition>
						<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
							<Active>false</Active>
							<Extend>false</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>BitLocker</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<Order>2</Order>
							<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
			</DiskConfiguration>

Hope it works out for u....

Hey,

How would you turn on authentication for the WinPE images? They are only recognized as Boot Images and not Install Images. How would you convert?

Actually the authentication is handled by the boot images so I'm pretty sure you can't have any authentication before selecting the boot image in the WDS menu.

Yes it is strange that u have to do the authentication in the WIM images where as RIS can do it initially at the login.

/Peter