Hello, I am practicing Remote Installation Services (RIS) for my Windows MCP exam and have run into a problem, which I would be very grateful to find a solution for. My present home network configuration is this: *A Celeron 500Mhz laptop running Windows Server 2000 *A Dell 4100 733Mhz PC running Windows Professional 2000 *With both connected through a hub in a Server/Client Domain environment My problem is authorizing RIS in Active Directory. RIS installs just fine on its’ own volume on my laptop, but for some reason Microsoft decided that the RIS is not authorized as an “RIS Server”; but rather it is authorized as a “DHCP Server”. In my setup, the IP address I would assign to the “RIS Server” (residing on my laptop) would be the same as the DHCP/DNS IP address (residing on my laptop); which won’t work. Other than buying another PC (which I can’t afford) is there a way around this? Many thanks in advance for any ideas or solutions. Sincerely, Martin

I've been playing with RIS lately as well. First of all you say that the machine does get authorized but only as a DHCP server, is that reflected in AD? When you go to the computer in AD does it show a "Remote Install" tab? If not, I've run into the problem where it says the RIS server is authorized but accually isn't. One way to get around this problem is to remove the RIS computer from the domain, rename it, remove it from active directory and DNS. Then join the domain again (recreating the computer in AD in the process) and re-authorize it. That worked for me a few times. Also I've noticed that if you join a RIS server which was previously a DC of it's own domain(before you demoted it) to another domain, RIS will authorize in AD but when the BINL service tries to start, it is states that it is not authorized. The only solution to this problem I've found was to reinstall the entire RIS machine. Hope this helps. Zach

Hi, Thanks for the reply. No the "DHCP" Server (my RIS) does not show up in AD, hence no "Remote Install Tab". Which for me all goes back to the fact that I've got the RIS on a Win2K Server with DHCP/DNS installed on the same machine. The wizard balks when I try to make the RIS IP address the same as the DHCP IP (on the same Win2K Server). To re-iterate, my RIS is on the same Server as my DHCP/DNS. I believe you think that my RIS is on a separte server, which it's not. I may be trying to do the impossible! Thanks for your time and feedback. Any other ideas? Sincerely, Martin

You could try binding a second IP address to the NIC and see if it will be accepted more graciously. I've not tried it but thought I'd pass along the thought. With peace...

Hello, where can i find informations about ris ? - for how to make a install-script for this. PS: Win2k-s is installed, RIS has win2k-pro included for remote install..... but how can i say: "install win with office with Proxy, and so on..." Has annybody one or more example-scripts ? (please reply answer as e-mail, too. xaarr@web.de, great-thanks) Daniel Stobbe/Forst.