n00b Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 hello folks is it possible to password protect WDS somehowyou can boot to vista pe without any login info and once it loads the batch screenyou can probably format the whole drive or somethinghelp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4tt3 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00b Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubernerd Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizz Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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