Does samba support windows RIS

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Sun Aug 15 02:34:11 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 13:13, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 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've documented the procedure here. I presume you can substitude the
boot image to be given to the client with the RIS ones.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/lotso/1863.html

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