Image problems...???

[puppet]

I have two images for our Dell GX270 desktops - one base image and one with all our various developer apps installed.

They were working fine but now when I apply the image with Ghost and the PC reboots and runs through the mini-setup process (I manually enter the PC name and all the rest is automated including joining the domain) it gives me an error stating that the domain entered was invalid would I like to skip adding the pc to a domain or retry.

If i retry it adds it to the domain and after the final reboot I am able to log into the domain without any problems. All appears fine until I noticed that Group Policy wasnt being applied to the PC (I couldn't assign software to it).

On checking the system event log I see an error stating that No logon server was available to authenticat me (or something similar - I am at home now...) I have applied both images to two of our spare GX270s now and have recieved the same result for each.

Any ideas as to what may have happened? Is it an image problem or is it something deeper?

No other PCs on the network are having problems...

Any help much appreciated.

 

[GVN]

It almost sounds like the network card isn't working. Are you sure that the drivers in your image are the correct ones for the hardware in that particular box? Dell is bad about throwing various brands of hardware in their boxes to cut costs. Let me know what you find out, and we can troubleshoot further...

GVN

 

[MrTBC]

I agree with GVN. It took me so long to get a working image for GX240/260/270/280 up and runnnig earlier this year.

 

[puppet]

Sorry should have posted this earlier - it turned out that the router that I was connected through was faulty - well kinda faulty in that Win 2000 images were not getting group policy applied anymore (used to work fine) but Win XP images were getting policies applied fine...

Anyway problem sorted - do not use that router anymore

Thanks for your time anyway.