More news on my case. So it began with failed deploiement of Windows XP once I moved to a new Server and upgraded the unattended software, all at once. Incidental as it ended up. During the text-based portion of the installation, while copying files, Windows was complaining about a wrong version of EXPAND.EXE.
I was able to get some peace by putting back the installation files on
the server and setting the file system acces right to 555 (owner, groupe
and everyone to read only).
Unrelatedly, so I tought so, I started to get computers that refuses to
bring the Windows desktop to some user. You could boot to the logon
window, make it accept your username and password and Windows would
returns back to the logon window. Since it was so easier and faster, I
was rebuilding the machines (with unattended), destroying evidence of
the problem.
But today I took the time to investigate a faulty laptop.
Most of my machines are relativly modests, so I can rarely afford the
payload of a resident antivirus. See where I'm heading? I run instead
CLAMWIN once a while, cleaning silently all the nasty stuff the students
grabs doing what students do with computers.
The laptop had a virus (2124 occurences of it actually) called
W32.Expiro-2. Google let me happily know that this virus append itself
to EXE files (EXPAND.EXE for instance). Since I manually connect to my
\\ntinstall\install folder with a full write access account, it were
never long before my point of installation gets corrupted. This
explains my first problem. And the antivirus is erasing (almost) every
EXE files of the laptop, I can also see why Windows refuses to boot
after it had run a couple of hours on the network.
The good news are that my hardware if just fine, as the unattended
software. The bad news, well, I'm sure you guys all know the drill.
I'm going to clean everything now.
With the Season's Greeting to everyone,
Dany Chouinard
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Le lundi 15 décembre 2008 à 10:06 -0500, Dany Chouinard a écrit :
> It ended up that I copied my WinXP I386 folder on the server (again) but
> this time I seted it up as read only. Things as been fine since.
>
> Dany Chouinard
>
> Le vendredi 28 novembre 2008 à 10:10 -0500, Dany Chouinard a écrit :
> > Greeting everyone!
> >
> > I have some problems with my unattended installation. I changed quit a
> > few things on my deployment server latly so I can't seem to pinpoint the
> > faulty part.
> >
> > Simply speaking, once the files are copied locally onto the computer,
> > the text-based setup of windows starts but he is not able to copy the
> > EXPAND.EXE files as it is not a valid Windows XP file.
> >
> > The EXPAND.EXE file present on the server is the exact same size than
> > the one found on the computer (I used a liveCD to check that).
> >
> > I have the driverpack integrated in the distribution point, but I was
> > able to build couple of computer before the EXPAND.EXE starts.
> >
> > I have tried several different computers with different hardware.
> >
> > I'm using unattended 4.8R5. I have the problem with nt5x-install and
> > the "classic" install.
> >
> > Any idea where I should look?
> >
> >
> > Dany CHOUINARD
> > Technicien en informatique -o)
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> > chouinard.d...@csob.qc.ca _\_v
> >
> > tél. 819.825.4220 ext. 3041
> > cel. 819.856.6892
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> >
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