Please i need help i am a newbie at this just trying my hands on learning stuff on my won. i configured WDS and Microsoft DHCP on Windows 2008 r2. I also have a separate laptop running virtual box where i have installed windows 7 hp and i want to capture the image on the WDS server. Every time i try a PXE boot on the win 7 image on virtual box i get an error saying "TFTP error 4 Access violation". All the solutions i have seen are referring to using Linux DHCP servers but my DHCP server is running on the same machine as WDS . So its a Microsoft DHCP server. I am thinking there is something wrong with my configuration for WDS please help anybody?

Hello, You can seek help in Setup Deployment forum:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserversetup/threads Anyways for >>>"TFTP error 4 Access violation". Check you network settings once again.Since you are using virtual box, make sure WDS/DHCP server and new client(PXE boot) are supposed to have same kind of network configuration (either of Host only, Bridged, NAT and custom etc) Regards, Ravikumar P

please see this link some one had the same issue in past http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/configmgrosd/thread/26af0eb0-08c6-453b-9edf-86ed9ae26ee7 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/mdt/thread/61aef35d-909a-452d-b7b3-494db7bdf0a8 http://www.arabitpro.com

Ok guys i need a little bit more help here. Rav My virtual box settings i have the network settings configured as bridged adapter. Syed unfortunately like i said the solutions i have seen refer to the same problem but the scenario in those cases show the use of an external DHCP server such as a Linux box or Cisco. In my own case i am using the DHCP server on my Windows 2008 r2 so i dont think i need to configure IP Helper. Another thing i tried was doing a TFTP from command line to the WDS server and i got the same error message i got during the pxe boot. See below errors i got during pxe boot from virtual box and the error i got when i tried tftp from command line in windows.

Check the video on Deploy Windows 7 with MDT 2010 WDS WAIK. If your using WDS and DHCP on same server did you enable the DHCP option 60. http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DHCP-Option-60-Configuratio-2cad825d Deployment queries, I would have ask here. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversetup/threads Thanks