Unattended Install

[Guy Soudant]

Hello,

I've been trying to get a network connection to a
distribution folder from DOS as I want to do an unattended
install for XP, when booting from a floppy disk.
Everything works, but I need to manually provide my
password and my account when trying to log onto the share
(the distribution folder on the server), even though I
pass all the variables (username and password) when I
create the network connection. The command I run is:

net use z: \\server\sharename
pwd /USER:domain\user /PERSISTENT:No

I always get the question to provide my login account
details. I use DOS 6.22 for the bootdisk. Is there a way
to create the network mapping without me entering any
details during the installation process. I already looked
into the system.ini file, but it looks as if everything
has been filled in properly.

By the way, does anyone know of any app or piece of code
that can bypass booting from floppy. I want to run the
unattend and then leave the install running, but XP setup
wants to reboot multiple times. After the first boot it
just boots from floppy.

Thanks for your help
Guy

 

[Christian Wittmann]

try this:
net logon user password /yes
net use z: \\server\share

first time, you must enter your password a second time to create the pwl
file...

cheers
chris