Network Boot disk, access denied

[Griff389]

I'm using Barts Modular boot disk to boot our new machines onto the network so I can then ghost an image on to them.

This was working finr all day yesterday, however now when I use it I get to the login password section, and after entering my password i am presented with:

"Error 5. Access Denied."

As far as i'm aware nothing has changed on the network for the account, it's not locked out, and the boot disk's not changed.
Occasionally it will let me log in, but more often than not i'm presented with the above error.

It's an Intel pro100 chipset if it's of any use.

Anyone any ideas, it's driving me up the wall trying to work out why i can't log in.

Regards

Griff

 

[bcastner]

You have exceeded the similarity test. There are drive letters the PnP service has identified, some of them like the CD Rom, that are read-only. (It contains at present the Bart CD).

 

[Griff389]

Sorry, i don't follow what you mean?

 

[bcastner]

My apologies. The enumeration by the Plug and Play (PnP) service is pointing to drive letters that appear to the installation service as read-only devices.

 

[Griff389]

Thanks for the quick replies, much apprecaited, but I'm still not sure I follow. Apologies. Is there a way around the problem?

There's no cd drives in these machines, and all i'm trying to do is boot up off floppy, log into domain, map a drive to another machine, run ghost from it, copy image and then my XP pro is up and running.

I did 12 identical machines yesterday and it booted and logged in fine, so can't understand why I can't log in now.

 

[bcastner]

smah,
<grin>
Bill