WDS – Clients receive Error: PXE-E53: No boot filename received

wdswindows-server-2008

I have setup WDS on Windows 2008 server in a Vmware box so I can practise setting up WDS,the server has DNS and DHCP as well as AD, the boot image is confirmed as working but when my clients try to boot up it does not work.

I have checked the following:

  • Clients can ping the WDS server.
  • The WDS service is started
  • Boot images for X86 and X64 are deployed.
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WDSServer\Providers\WDSPXE
  • UseDhcpPorts has been set to 0

My clients just receive Error: PXE-E53: No boot filename received.

Any idea what could be wrong?

Best Answer

In the DHCP tab of the WDS server properties, do you have both 'Do not listen on Port 67' and 'Configure DHCP option 60 to indicate that this server is also a PXE server' options checked as described in the TechNet article 'configuring DHCP'?

Hope this helps,

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