WDS and MDT networkshare error?

[larson]

Hei, im running a wns2008 r2 with hyper-v as host.

Im installing WDS and MTD on a wns2012 gust os.

 

In the host OS i have made a share called "Deploymentshare", and created a folder inside called "RemoteInstall".

Sat the permissions to admin and everyone. (read/write)

Mounted the share as a network drive in the guest OS (no problem everyting worksfine). Looks like this " Z:\Deploymentshare".

 

 

 

I have stumbled over 2 problems:

 

WDS configuration:

I cant set the remote install folder under the deployments server configurations (early), I'm trying to change it from C:\RemoteInstall to Z:\Deploymentshare\RemoteInstall

I get the error: "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"

I have trid to use C:\RemoteInstall, no problem, but as this is a guest OS with smal amount of space i want to use a remote share..

 

MDT Deploymentshare:

Network (UNC) path: \\ussenterprise\Deploymentshare

Local path: Z:\Deploymentshare

When enabling multicast in the general tab i get; "Invalid UNC path" when i press apply.

 

Any help please?

 

sorry for my english :/

 

Best regards Einar.

[WinOutreach4]

Have you removed the administrative shares on the machine? This Wiki article shows this as a possible cause of the error message that you posted.

Have you tried the command line method of changing the folder location?

wdsutil /Uninitialize-Server

wdsutil /Initialize-Server /REMINST:”Z:\deploymentshare\remoteinstall”

 

 

For the Invalid UNC path error, can you navigate to that path in a CMD window?

Does it only give this error when enabling multicasting?

If you don’t check the multicast box, does MDT accept this UNC path?

 

Hope this helps,

 

David

Windows Outreach Team – IT Pro

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