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Mauldor · 28-04-2005, 16:28

Not Sure if this will help in any Shape or Form but When I last Used ghost, I had on a main machine a Ghost Cast Server running and built a Boot Floppy for the NIC that I had in my machines. I set Ghost cast to recieve Images to a certain Dir and the file name (had to keep changing this per Machine I was Ghosting) and booted, ghosted etc no problems.

On the Peer to Peer Side I had to alter the Boot floppy Myself to connect to a Shared Drive Letter, this giving me a extra Drive to choose from as you would - it is the same as DOS Mapping to a drive, which I cannot recall Off Hand.

I have now moved onto Acronis True Image as this works while Windows is running, which means I can choose a Mapped Drive Letter rather than Mess about with DOS - which is messy to say the least. I had my Doubts to how this would work as windows is running yet it makes a Full Image somehow and the Compressions is Very good, a Fully Loaded Machines (XP Pro, Office etc) compressed down to 6 Gig, with a bit more tweaking of What is on my Machine I am sure I could somehow make that Fit onto a DVD Size. It does allow Rescue Disk to be made in the event of a Total machine failure as well.

28-04-2005, 16:28	#10
Mauldor Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scunthorpe Age: 58 Services: 50mbit, Base TV, Base Phone Posts: 437	Re: Ghost Image across a LAN Not Sure if this will help in any Shape or Form but When I last Used ghost, I had on a main machine a Ghost Cast Server running and built a Boot Floppy for the NIC that I had in my machines. I set Ghost cast to recieve Images to a certain Dir and the file name (had to keep changing this per Machine I was Ghosting) and booted, ghosted etc no problems. On the Peer to Peer Side I had to alter the Boot floppy Myself to connect to a Shared Drive Letter, this giving me a extra Drive to choose from as you would - it is the same as DOS Mapping to a drive, which I cannot recall Off Hand. I have now moved onto Acronis True Image as this works while Windows is running, which means I can choose a Mapped Drive Letter rather than Mess about with DOS - which is messy to say the least. I had my Doubts to how this would work as windows is running yet it makes a Full Image somehow and the Compressions is Very good, a Fully Loaded Machines (XP Pro, Office etc) compressed down to 6 Gig, with a bit more tweaking of What is on my Machine I am sure I could somehow make that Fit onto a DVD Size. It does allow Rescue Disk to be made in the event of a Total machine failure as well.