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How to map an additional drive in Ghost Solution Suite 3.0/3.1 

Oct 13, 2016 02:26 PM

Summary:

This document is meant to provide guidance on mapping a secondary drive / network drive as an alternative storage location for Ghost Solution Suite.

*Please backup jobs and computers before performing any changes listed below. *The below images have had I.P information removed. Please do not interpret this as an empty field, these fields will need to be populated.

 

1. Open the Boot Disk Creator / Pxe Configuration and modify the configuration that needs an additional drive mapping.

 

 

2. Navigate to Step 6 of 8 in Boot Disk Creator, or Step 6 of 12 in PXE configuration

 

 

3. In Ghost Solution Suite 3.1, the default eXpress share is mapped to drive M. Best practice would be to map an additional drive to a letter following M such as N.

 

 

4. Once a letter has been selected, enter the share path into the path field and then proceed through the remaining steps.

 

 

5. On Step 8 of 8 (8 of 12 – PXE): Configuration Summary, it should display both drive mappings at the bottom of the window as shown below (Yours may differ due to server and share name). Click finish and proceed with rebuilding the boot configuration. Once completed, Automation/PXE (Depending on setup) should now be mapping an additional drive.

 

 

Implementation is as follows:

 

Boot Disk – Rebuild your boot disk to compile the new settings and drive mappings.

 

Automation – Rebuild / re-deploy the automation folder package to the client machines so that they have the latest automation environments that will include the new drive mappings.

 

PXE – PXE will update automatically after the PXE configuration is rebuild (Step 12 of 12)

 

Note:

Receiving error-99 when trying to create / deploy image from newly mapped share

Likely caused due to permissions on the newly mapped share, check permissions and ownership properties to verify that adequate privileges are being supplied for the user listed in the boot configuration.

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Feb 01, 2019 04:04 PM

You can select any drive letter you like from the drop down.      I would encourage you not to modify it.   This is only while the client is booted into windows PE.   None of the production mappings will be seen whil in windows pe so there would not be any overlap or issues by having the WinPE useing M drive.  

In the screen shot it shows step 6 of 8 you can select the M drive and then delete the path.    Please make sure you copy this path exactly when you set it as your new drive letter.      If you start running into error 99 on ghost jobs the most common reason is because the drive mapping to the express share is not working right so if you get those errors after altering these go back and make sure you don't have a typeo. 

 

Cheers

 

Jan 31, 2019 07:51 AM

Hi,

 

How do I change the default mapping letter from M: to something else?

 

M: letter is already used by our system so that's not available for use in this case.

 

Could you please remove M: letter hardcoding and allow user to select drive letter instead?

 

Thanks.

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