Hi I have setup a MDT/WDS deployment environment. Its almost completed now (images, drivers etc) and I can PXE boot to the server no problem. On running PXE boot on a PC once I enter in my network login details it fails to login, displaying *invalid credentials: the network path was not found.
I have given my account full admin access to the deployment share.
Path to the deployment share is exactly the same as it is in the bootstrap.ini.
Best Answer
This could be an issue with the network driver for that PC in the LiteTouch boot file. Have you loaded hardware specific drivers into MDT and regenerated the boot images while including the drivers? Go into the Deployment Share properties, then to the Windows PE tab, then to the Drivers and Patches tab and make sure you have at least the options ‘Include all network drivers in the selection profile’ and ‘Include all mass storage drivers in the selection profile’ checked and that the selection profile at the top of that page is not excluding the drivers. Then, be sure to replace the boot image in WDS with the newly regenerated boot image from MDT.
Additionally, while you are still in Windows PE, you can press F8 to open a command prompt and navigate to the X drive to find the log files which may give more information to help, as shown in Issue #2 in the article Inside Setup – Troubleshoot Windows Deployment Issues
Hope this helps,