Hi Jim,

We had the same issue.   PXE Redirect in 6.9 SP2 did the same thing.  Altiris Support gave us a work around that work flawlessly and even reduces work.  I'm not at the office right now, but i'll post the notes i have tomorrow when i get back in. 

Scott

Thanks Scott, that would be great!

Hey Scott, have you any update on this for me?  

Thanks,
Jim

Hi Jim,

Sorry for the delay in getting this to you.  OK Here is the setup an Altiris Engeineer on the DS team told me to use.

A quick note about our environment before we start.  we use our PXE servers in our location as a file server for that location as well.

setup your main PXE options on the master PXE server like you want under the shared profile.

In the remote locations, simply setup the PXE servers with no local boot options,and therefore, no redirect.  Have the remote locations IP Helper point to the local PXE as you normally would.  This will be pulling the winPE over the wire.  If you have a descent connection to the remote location, it's not really a big deal.

on the PE builds on the master and create a mapdrvs.bat under the startup folder.  below are the contents of that file.

if /i %ALTIRIS_PXE_SERVER%==%ALTIRIS_DS_SERVER% (goto one) else (goto two)

:one
net use L: \\EDMSITEMAIN\Library password /user:domain\user
net use O: \\EDMSITEMAIN\Images password /user:domain\user
goto end

:two
net use L: \\%ALTIRIS_PXE_SERVER%\Library password /user:domain\user
net use O: \\%ALTIRIS_PXE_SERVER%\Images password /user:domain\user
goto end

:end

Basically, what this does is use some env. variables from winpe and sets up our mapped drivers for us to pull our images, install packages, etc from a local share.  you may not need this.

We have all of our remote locations setup this way and i haven't had any issues.  We do have one location that has a very small pipe back to us, and we simply create ISO's and send to them.  That is a small office as well, so it's no big deal.

I may not have explained this well, so if you want more detail or clarification, fell free to email me and we can talk offline more about this.