On my network I have my Terminal Services users that use Openthinclient but I
also have a lot of regular desktops as well as a couple racks of servers.

For my regular desktops and servers I want to be able to rebuild them with
Windows Remote Installation Services (RIS or aka WDS if you run 2003 R2).

Now, at it's (black) heart, RIS is a TFTP boot server that downloads a small
graphical front-end pretty much the same way that OTC does.  In the past,
I've successfully hacked RIS using the pxelinux.0 bootloader (pxelinux.cfg,
default, etc) so that if I type one thing at the "Boot:" prompt it will load
up a linux image (thinstation and codtech) and if you type in "ris" it will
load up the RIS server.  It's pretty nifty actually

I've poked around the innards of OTC and it still uses pxelinux.0 but it
does something weird with the default file (template.txt).  I've found that
I can modify template.txt the same way I did with the "default" file (I
assume that the template.txt becomes default at some point) and load up the
RIS kernel (wdsnbp) but it didn't find the RIS server since the service was
disabled.

The problem that I'm running into with RIS is that the service on the
back-end relies on a separate RIS TFTP service.  So in order to use the RIS,
I have to use its TFTP server.

So, my question is this; can OTC use a separate TFTP server and still
maintain it's functionality?
Thanks!
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