Does samba support windows RIS

[Mike Fedyk]

Louis Garcia wrote:

>Remote Installation Services (RIS) for Windows 2000 allows
>administrators to distribute an Riprep based drive image of a customized
>Windows 2000 installations to remote clients on a network. In addition,
>the RIP client uses PXE/DHCP©based remote boot technology to remotely
>install the OS on the local hard disk of a client computer.
>
>Basically I want to install windows over the network using a samba
>server. Does the latest samba support this feature?
>
Samba is part of what you want.  It implements the file transfer 
functionality but doesn't touch the booting side.

You probably want pxe with dhcp and tftp, but I haven't set anything 
like that up myself.  I'll let someone else give you pointers for that.

Mike