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  • 1.  Can Ghost do this? New Setup

    Posted Jun 06, 2007 12:32 PM
    I have been using the old ghost 7 for a while now and have been planning on upgrading to the latest GSS 2.0.  What I do with ghost currently is use a network bootable floppy to map a drive to my ghost server where the ghost.exe and all of my ghost images are on.  I then push and and pull down images to 4 different models of laptops.  So each model of laptop has its own custom image.  I have them VLAN so they do not interfere with other network traffic.  As most of you know, with the new SP2 for 2003 server, msdos boot disk do not work out of the box and you have to lower the 2003 server security to get them to work.  This is something I do not want to do.  So I am looking for another solution.

    Should I upgrade to GSS 2.0 and use some of the new features it has to get the job done?  Should I just buy a infrant NAS and ghost all images to that?  Or should I just build a win 2000 or linux/samba server and use that?


  • 2.  RE: Can Ghost do this? New Setup

    Posted Jun 06, 2007 04:13 PM
    I will only comment on your final option.  Making a windows 2000 server would pretty much be the equivelant to lowering 2003 security to let the dos disk connect...... whats the difference there?
     
    You can also use client side initiated tasks to connect to a ghost-cast session. 


  • 3.  RE: Can Ghost do this? New Setup

    Posted Jun 06, 2007 06:40 PM
    Well not exactly.  The current server it is on is used for other things as well as hosting the ghost files.  I have two NICs on that server.  One for ghosting and one for its other tasks.  With the 2000 /linux server I could VLAN it off so only 5-10 ports on the entire campus has access to it and no internet or access to anything else.  Just trying to find a good solution for my problem and I do not mind spending money to get it.