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BDD 2007: Can’t connect to the deployment share
Posted on January 29th, 2008 4 commentsError message: “A connection to the deployment share (\\server\deployment_share) could not be made. The deployment will not proceed.”
I ran into this problem this morning when trying to load Windows XP on a new computer using Business Desktop Deployment and Windows Deployment Services. It turned out that the reason for this is because my WinPE boot image didn’t have the network drivers for the new computer (when you type in ipconfig /all in the command prompt in WinPE, you’ll notice that there’s no IP assigned).
I fixed this problem by doing the following:
- Download the network drivers for the computer having this issue.
- Open the Deployment Workbench.
- Add the network drivers to Distribution Share->Out-of-Box Drivers.
- Go to Deploy->Deployment Points, select your deployment point and click Update. This will update your WinPE boot image (LiteTouchPE_x86.wim) to include the new drivers.
- Open Windows Deployment Services and replace your boot image.
- Reboot the client machine and boot in WinPE again, it should now be able to connect to the deployment share.
4 responses to “BDD 2007: Can’t connect to the deployment share”
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We just received 30 Compaq DC5800 Micro Tower units. I am positive I have the right NIC driver, an Intel Gigabit driver. After booting to my Win PE CD and entering my network credentials, I continue to get the error “A connection to the deployment share (\\server\deployment_share) could not be made. The deployment will not proceed.”
I even went so far as to create the CD (from the Lite-Touch ISO file) with ONLY the network drivers and none other. I would appreciate some advice of what’s going on here. We’re deploying XP Pro, SP3; I update the deployment point and create the deployment CD from the ISO file created.
Thanks,
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webmaster March 13th, 2009 at 20:06
Hi David,
You may need to restart the WDS service after replacing the boot image in the WDS console. Have you tried this already?
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webmaster March 13th, 2009 at 20:29
Did you also try entering “ipconfig /all” in the cmd window in WinPE? If you get an IP address then it’s not the driver and you might just need to recreate you deployment point.
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joeblow September 29th, 2009 at 05:38
I ran into this problem when WinPE could not use the XP driver for the NIC (Realtek). After I added the Vista driver to the Deployment Workbench then it worked.
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David Smith March 12th, 2009 at 21:56