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 -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 06:55:31 up 1:02, 5 users, load average: 1.96, 1.92, 1.68
