RIS - how to give clients computer name and static IP address?

wesley · 17 Mar 2008 at 11:13

hi guys

i've built an image from a target machine and saved it on server via riprep.exe. All went fine.

every PC's got computer name and static IP address starts from :

computer name static IP
PC10 192.168.0.10
PC11 192.168.0.11
PC12 192.168.0.12
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PC90 192.168.0.90

etc

so press F12 button on client machine, enter my admin/password and select the OS to install, but how can i get the RIS server to give each machine computer and and static IP address?

many thanks

Lex · 17 Mar 2008 at 13:55

You said your RIS worked??

I got a problem whereby the client PC cannot find the network drivers to begin the install of the Operating system image located on the RIS Server.

can you shed any light?

Burnsy2023 · 17 Mar 2008 at 14:05

Computer names are easy, either enable a customer installation in Group policy or prestage the client.

I've never wanted to give static IPs so I'm not sure about that, but you could just reserve IPs in DHCP to solve the problem.

Burnsy

wesley · 17 Mar 2008 at 14:35

its the company's policy, all machines must have computer name which same as end of the IP address. (static IP)

lex, yes i got the RIS working

oddjob62 · 17 Mar 2008 at 14:35

Lex said:
You said your RIS worked??

I got a problem whereby the client PC cannot find the network drivers to begin the install of the Operating system image located on the RIS Server.

can you shed any light?

You need to make sure the network drivers are in the right places. They have to be in:
1. The OEM Folder (this is used during the install)
2. The i386 folder for the image (this is used for the initial setup before the install starts)

Lex · 17 Mar 2008 at 14:57

oddjob62 said:
You need to make sure the network drivers are in the right places. They have to be in:
1. The OEM Folder (this is used during the install)
2. The i386 folder for the image (this is used for the initial setup before the install starts)

are you on msn?

Burnsy2023 · 17 Mar 2008 at 15:26

oddjob62 said:
You need to make sure the network drivers are in the right places. They have to be in:
1. The OEM Folder (this is used during the install)
2. The i386 folder for the image (this is used for the initial setup before the install starts)

It may also need to be within the standard XP (I assume) image which isn't sysprepped or anything, depending on the driver.

Have a look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315279

Burnsy

oddjob62 · 17 Mar 2008 at 15:31

Burnsy2023 said:
It may also need to be within the standard XP (I assume) image which isn't sysprepped or anything, depending on the driver.

Yeah if you've not RIPrepped, then it will be in the standard image that is created during the initial RIS setup.

Lex yeah i'm on MSN (in trust), but at work so i may not respond too quickly.

wesley · 17 Mar 2008 at 15:52

lex

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742378.aspx this is where i learnt from

Burnsy2023 · 17 Mar 2008 at 17:13

oddjob62 said:
Yeah if you've not RIPrepped, then it will be in the standard image that is created during the initial RIS setup

Not if it's a HP DC7700 it won't

Burnsy

oddjob62 · 17 Mar 2008 at 22:43

Burnsy2023 said:
Not if it's a HP DC7700 it won't

Burnsy

Yeah i was agreeing with you. maybe my wording was a bit bad. I meant "it will be in the standard image that you need to put the drivers".

EDIT: yeah reading it again my wording WAS bad