We send our images directly to the filer.  One problem we initially had was that you need to make sure that the NIC card speed and duplex on the PC is not set for Auto Detect.  Set the Speed and Duplex manually in the protocol.ini on the floppy.  Each NIC is different in how you need to set this, so you will need to find out what works for your NIC.  Also, on the ghost command line, we needed to specify a different buffer size than the default.  We use a buffer size of 8 and it seems to work fine.  If we left it default, it was extremely slow.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Witham, John [mailto:jwitham@takedapharm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:55 AM
To: 'Mumphrey, Robert N'; 'Asbjørn Bjørkelund'; 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: RE: access filer from boot floppy [getting OT]

There's a flawless boot disk at http://www.bovistech.com/detect.htm .  It will autodetect most network cards.  We use it for GHOSTing our client PCs.

On a similar note, we have severe problems _sending_ and image to the filers from any NetBIOS boot disk.  I've read that it's DOS limitations to NetBIOS, but am not sure.  Presently, I use a NetBeui boot disk to send the image to an NT workstation and then copy it to the filer... Works, but is a kludge. 

Anybody doing anything different?

-john

John Witham
Senior Data Networking Engineer
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.
V://847.383.3304
F://847.383.3205
mailto://jwitham@takedapharm.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mumphrey, Robert N [mailto:Robert.Mumphrey@AIMFUNDS.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:04 AM
To: 'Asbjørn Bjørkelund'; 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: RE: access filer from boot floppy

We are performing this exact process at our site.  We actually do our
Windows 2000 automated server loads from our filer using a boot floppy.  Are
you using a standard type of boot floppy created using Microsoft's Network
Disk Creation utility that gets loaded with NT Server 4.0?  As long as you
specify the WINS servers (and the filers have WINS entries) in the
protocol.ini, you should be able to map drives straight away.  Are you able
to get on the network at all with your floppy?  Are you authenticating to
the domain?
Hope this helps some.



-----Original Message-----
From: Asbjørn Bjørkelund [mailto:asbjorn.bjorkelund@proact.no]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:52 AM
To: 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: access filer from boot floppy



Hello guru's

We have several workstations which we want to take ghost image of, and store
it on the filer, but when i try to access the filer from
a boot floppy I'am not able to access the filer. I have tried to map network
drive to a unix and ntfs style volume but nothing helps.
I have changed the user rights for the volume, but it did not help. I can
map network drives to other nt servers we have, but not to the
filer. Is it possible to do this on a filer?
I hope somebody can help me out here.

Regards

Asbjorn Bjorkelund
ProAct Systems
Phone + 47 51601460
Mobile + 47 932 30623


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