I have searched and searched and so far have not found an answer to this dilemma. I need to be able to access the shares of a Windows 2003 Domain Controller from a network DOS client. I need this so that PC's can be re-imaged, for example using Ghost. I'm using Bart's Boot Disk (www.nu2.nu). The disk boots up fine, loads the correct drivers for the NIC, loads the MS TCP/IP stack, gets an IP address via DHCP (from the same domain controller I'm trying to access no less), and prompts me for username and password. Every attempt to login is met with Error #5: Access has been denied. I have changed the Default Domain Controller Policy to send both LM and NTLM responses and turned off the Digitally Sign Communications policy. The Everyone group has been granted Full Control in both the Share and NTFS permissions. I have searched Google, read all of the relevant articles on this site that I've found, and searched the Windows 2003 newsgroups at MS Support extensively. I have found many articles that request assistance with this problem, but none of the replies have the answer. Please, Please, Please, does anyone know how to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I'm having the same problem connecting to a win 2003 controller with no success and I to have tried many senarios on the server acting as a controller. I have been successful connecting to to a member server running windows 2003 by changing the system.ini to authenticate on the member server. There must be a setting not allowing legacy connections to a windows 2003 controller but what can it be?

I found the answer to our imaging problem. This needs to be set to DISABLED. This one had me stumped too. I was sure it was something like this but so many options where to start. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/570.asp

Yes that's it. I guess now knowing why it's set like this may be reason not to have the source files on a controller.