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Hello all,
I am pretty new to deploy studio, so I will try to be as informative with this question as possible.
So, I have mac mini running Snow Leopard 10.6.3 & DeployStudio (Nightly Build 100609).
I want to use deploy studio to image/deploy PC images to work clients.
I have setup a SMB sharepoint with full access to my admin accounts via Server Admin
I just went through and completed the deploystudio assistant
The address of my server is 192.168.100.29
The url is cifs://192.168.100.29/Shared/DSShare (path of folder on my server)
I go to deploystudio admin and try to login with the credentials
server address - 192.168.100.29
login - admin
password - admin
The result is the error or my address not being valid or the host is unreachable. After the third try I receive the message of "the server's repository is not configured." In a related issue I am assuming, when I try to PXE boot a target machine I get the DeployStudio screen with the option to either run a maintenance or boot off the local disk.
So, my question is how can I connect to deploystudio admin to finalize my setup and deploy PC images?
Thank you.
Gerard
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I'm having the same issue and I think it is a DNS thing. I have Deploy Studio working perfectly when it comes to imaging Macs, and the only difference that I can tell when running the DS assistant is the DNS entry for deploystudiopcserver. I don't want to rename my server because I'm afraid the Mac side imaging won't work anymore, so I created an alias record in DNS for the name deploystudiopcserver to resolve to the actual DS server name. However, this fails any nslookup command to test the settings unless I add <domainname><lan> to the end of nslookup. Like, nslookup deploystudiopcserver will fail, but nslookup deploystudiopcserver.forest.lan (my primary zone settings) will resolve showing the canonical name to be the server name. I've also tried creating the record to just an IP address, but it still won't PXE boot correctly, because I only get the options to boot to local drive or maintenance mode. I can't find any more info, particularly in these forums where multiple posts like this exist, but nobody ever seems to resolve their issue. They must move on to a different product, like I'm about to do.
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Maintenance mode is what you need to boot into - thats the option that then gives you restore and master options.
On another note the alias will only respond to deploystudiopcserver.fqdn as it is just an alias and not an actual computer name. The fact though that you are booting to the menu options means your PXE booting IS working and finding the server.
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