Windows 2008 Deployment

[truhill]

Hey y'all, i'm new here and i have a little situation.

 

Here is the situation (i'll try to be as clear as possible).

 

I have:

 

Lan 1:

1 virtual server windows 2008 with AD, DNS and DHCP.

1 2ndary virtual windows 2008 with AD, DNS and DHCP (in case the first drops)

1 virtual server windows 2008 with share and storage management and printer manager (with printers' drivers installed)

1 virtual server windows 2008 with deployment manager (with images on it)

1 virtual server mandriva 2010.2 with OCS inventory

1 virtual server mandriva 2010.2 with share and storage management

 

Lan 2:

All clients' computers with automatic DHCP on. They are all in the domain.

 

Both lans are connected to a built router windows 2008. (i know lots of windows 2008)

 

The problem that i am having is that the deployment server doesn't deploy because there is no port 60 (PXE Client) on the principal server DCHP. I don't think the principal server DHCP redirects the client computers towards the multicast of the server deployment.

(Just in case you ask, i've already configure the client's computer bios to boot on LAN first.) Because the server DHCP assigns a @IP to client's computer but the TFTP goes to time out. i figure it was probably because of the DHCP port 60 but i don't know how to resolve that.

 

The other problem is that the printer server. I've made a GPO in the principal server AD for the printers to deploy on the clients computer. The problem is when i try to deploy the printer from the printers server by adding the GPO but a message shows up saying that the domain does not exist or it didn't respond.

 

Everything else works. all the clients computers receive a IP@ from the server DCHP no problem. All the virtual servers in LAN 1 are in the DNS. They can all ping among each other.

 

I've been working on it for one week and i don't seem to go anywhere with it.

 

Please! Help me.

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[ICTCity]

Yours clients can receive an IP or not? Because when you talk about LAN 1 and 2 I assume they're different LAN with different IPs. That means if you have a router in the middle, you must enable a DHCP Relay to forward broadcast request.

 

When you receive the error "the domain doesn't exist........" usually is because the sysvol folder is not shared. Take a look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283133

[truhill]

Hey yes. There is a router in between the two LANs. Thank you for pointing that out.

 

The Main DHCP server (192.168.52.1) is able to relay IPs to the second LAN (192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254).

 

I think that you are right about the sharing folder. I'm going to check on it first thing monday morning.

 

Thank you so much for your help and input.

[ICTCity]

Hey yes. There is a router in between the two LANs. Thank you for pointing that out.

 

The Main DHCP server (192.168.52.1) is able to relay IPs to the second LAN (192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254).

 

I think that you are right about the sharing folder. I'm going to check on it first thing monday morning.

 

Thank you so much for your help and input.

 

Let me know if you've resolved.

[truhill]

Hey! still no cigar!

 

I tried the link you send me. But it still didn't work and still brought up the same error message. I can ping, nslookup and all that stuff. I even try to add the printer server to the AD under computers.

 

The good news is that i was able work out the server windows deployment. I just added the DHCP to it and disintall the DHCP from the main server.

 

I'll try something (which i still dont know what) tomorrow.

 

Thanks again for the help!

[ICTCity]

Dumb question... are yours clients and server on the same domain? Because a GPO can operates only in domain...

[truhill]

Yes they are.

[ICTCity]

That message is really useless... Nothing in event viewer? The only thing you can try is to recheck all settings

... In most cases that message is related to sysvol which isn't shared.. But you've already check that.