I've been having an issue with my WDS server lately, I didn't have this issue before but now when I create an image of a windows xp box, I actualy boot up into a custom winpe with command line, map a drive to my server, and run imagex /capture /compress fast c:\ y:(network drive and path) "description and title"

that works fine, so the image is now on the server, once I add the image to WDS in a group it's there and everything appears fine, once i load the windows install winpe from the original vista dvd, and pxe boot with it from wds it loads fine, i click next. logon with THE domain administrator, the image from the correct workstation appears in a list, i click it, click next.wait about 10 seconds and I get an error message "Windows could not display the images available for installation" This really sucks because I need these images there and for them to work correctly, the wim images are correct size(about 4 gig) and like i said this used to work fine, this is my first time using winpe 2.0 to create them, i used to use the windows server 2003 opk with imagex to create them but I wanted to create a fully pxe bootable solution, the only other difference i can think of is i have no vista installation images on the server, just the boot images...anyone have any idea? any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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i'm sorry this shouldn't be in this forum. I could've sworn I had it in the NT4 forum, could mods please move it?

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Are you running this on a Windows 2003 R2 machine?

dont forget that certain services are locked down more.

Have you enabled all your options in wds? listen on port 67 etc.

what mode are you in for wds?

Are you using the wds image capture wizard?

fogive me if I am teaching you to suck eggs just need to know your setup

Moving to Unattended Vista forum in the hopes this will get more views/results.

Windows Server 2003 R2 x86

WDS Mixed Mode

I'm capturing using a custom CMD based WinPE 2.0 from WAIK, using the imagex /capture command, then moving to network share and adding to WDS server.

Luke have you tried using the wds wizard to capture as a starter point.

Is your RPC, Net time etc working ok?

I did not, well, i've tried it but my drives don't show up in the pull down menu so..maybe I'm doing somethinr wrong there? yes, I haven't had any other issues, time synch is fine..etc...

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Luke I get this set up on my rig tomorrows and then let you know if this works for me.

awesome, thanks, and for the record, i had this working when the server was first setup.

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