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  • 1.  Password is not valid..... via PXE boot

    Posted Apr 25, 2008 02:08 PM
    Hi There,
     
    I am using Ghost 2.0. I am using PXE boot to image the machines. The process goes well until I get to the point when a user name and password is being asked ,before the machine goes to Ghost32.exe and being image, I enter them correctly but I get the following message.
     
    The password is not valid for \\computername\foldername
    Type the password for \\computername\foldername
     
    Already created many local accounts at the local machine and changed the passwords but no luck.
     
    Has anyone seeing this issue before? If yes, please let me know
     
    Thank you
    Carlos


  • 2.  RE: Password is not valid..... via PXE boot

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 06:06 PM
    Sounds to me like it's just a simple problem of not having the right NetBIOS username/password.  This isn't a Ghost problem, it's a DOS-level networking/file-sharing problem still.

    I don't know what the server's OS is (the //computername/ that you're trying to mount a volume from.)  But make sure that server is accepting LM based authentication.  Many places have moved to accepting only NTLM (or even only NTLMv2) and that won't work with DOS-level file-sharing usually.

    Make sure your DNS name and IP address and all that matches your server's NetBIOS computername.  Way too often I see people set their computer's name to one thing, but the IP address the machine gets has a different DNS name (forward and reverse) attached to it.  It shouldn't matter at the DOS/NetBEUI/WINS level but you can never tell.  I don't think this is it, but it's worth a look.

    Can you succesfully mount //computername/foldername from another computer that's just running Windows XP?  Skip DOS for a moment, and verify that the exported share actually works from another "normal" machine.  Since you're using PXE, I'm guessing your target Ghost environment is DOS.  You mentioned "before the machine goes to Ghost32.exe" so I wasn't sure if you were booting into Windows PE using 32bit Ghost32.exe, or if you were PXE'ing into DOS and using 16bit DOS Ghost.exe

    PH



  • 3.  RE: Password is not valid..... via PXE boot

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 08:47 PM
    Hi Paul,
     
    The problem was that on the server (Win2k3) was set NTLMv2 as authentication protocol. After I changed it to NTLM, the problem was fixed.
     
    Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.
     
    Take care :)