I am trying to capture an image off an coputer through WDS.
I followed the instructions in another post here:
1. Install the WDS Server role
2. Launch the WDS MMC (from the Administrative Tools Menu)
3. Right-click the server and choose 'Configure Server'. Step through the wizard.
4. Choose to add images to the server (the check box on the finish page of the 'Configure Server' wizard). Point to the Longhorn Server DVD (or the contents of the DVD on a network share / folder).
And if you want to deploy XP images in .WIM format
5. Right-click the Windows PE image in the 'boot' folder and choose 'Create Capture Image'. The output of this command is a customized version of Windows PE that will launch the WDS Image Capture utility instead of setup.exe.
6. Add the .WIM file created in step#5 back to the server by right-clicking on the 'Boot' node and choosing 'Add Boot Image'.
7. Install XP onto a reference machine (client computer)
8. Install some apps / do some customizations
9. Run sysprep (available in deploy.cab from your XP SP2 media)
10. PXE boot the reference machine against the WDS server.
11. Select the WDS Image Capture Windows PE image from the boot menu.
12. Complete the wizard to capture the XP SP2 image and upload it to the WDS Server.
In addition I added the nic driver to the capture image usin imagex and peimg.
I boot on network, select the correct image. Starts the wizard and select partition to image.
But when I type server name, and selects Connect, I cannot connect to the server.
Get en timeout.
Tryed with servername, FQDN, and IP. Nothing works.
Regards
Aage Borgund