Ghost Boot Wizard succesfully created boot CD but won't connect to network drive for image download
I hope this makes sense to someone and that this is the right forum to use... but I'm ready to pull out my hair. I'm useing the latest Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 (11.5.0.2113) to start the Ghost Boot Wizard and I have added the network drives for the XP pro Dell 760 that i'm trying to Ghost. I also include an unused drive letter (Z:) with remote account, password, domain and file name for the image.... this all written to a CD...everything looks good until I boot the Dell 760 with the CD... Ghost eventually comes up but the network drive is no where to be found and i'm stuck.... what am I doing wrong? I have been reading everything I can find on it for the past three work days to no avail... I've even tried to run the Deploy Anywhere from the Boot disk with no luck... when I try the x:\ghost\GhDplyAw32.exe /eval /target=c:\Windows /ddb=d:\windrivers command I get "unable to connect to the SmeUtil Driver. The Handle is invalid" any ideas??? thanks in advance.
experiment with USB
first you will save some time by getting this all to work with a USB key, and save a bunch of blank disks. once you get it working on a USB drive you can do it over again on a CD and it will work the same way. second: try and map the drive from within windows PE. to do this boot off of your USB drive and when it fails to map the drive letter quit ghost and use the command prompt in the background. experiment with the net use command until you get it correct, write it down and then remake your boot disk. its likely that your net use command is incorrect, it gets a little tricky when trying to mount a domain share when your not on the domain. heres what works for me:
net use z: \\server\share /user:guy@domain.com ""password""
the double quotes around the password are key when connecting to a domain share from off of the domain
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