I am about to deploy some XP syspreped images at my location and I ran into
a strange problem related to my network boot disk.

I have a share on the new Win SBS 2003 called images, with the permissions
set up for administrator. and a subfolder containing my ghost program, as
usual.

I boot off a network boot disk based on Win98se boot image and loads network
support for the 3com nic in the machine no porblems and maps a drive letter
to the share on the server (logs in as administrator and i enter the
administrator password for the server.)

This is where things go weird. I can change to the drive letter but DIR
command is answered with Access Denied.

I mustbe missing something, everything looks like it should work,
authenticates to the domain, net use shows the mpping as OK with the proper
Remote name etc. This should work, but I am stuck, any help appreciated,
at this point i am guessing it has something to do with the server (came
preconfigured from Dell), but the permissions look ok from what i can tell.

I should also add that I have no problems seeing the share and connecting to
it from my XP laptop, its just when i use the network boot disk, from DOS.

I think I may have had a similar problem a while ago... Is NetBIOS
enabled in the TCP/IP settigns on the server?


BMN wrote:
> I should also add that I have no problems seeing the share and connecting to
> it from my XP laptop, its just when i use the network boot disk, from DOS.
>
>

Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled. Since I can actually map drives to the
serves name \\name\share without issue I don't think its a protocol related
issue.

I googles the following informtion from a post of another person with the
same problem and have tried this, but it hasn't worked for me. I still get
access denied

Follow these steps to do that:

1. Open the Default Domain Controllers Policy.
2. Open the Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local
Policies\Security Options folder.
3. Locate the Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications
(always) policy setting, and then click Disabled or Do Not Configure.

Here is the answer

http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=139