PXE boot file location

[Colin Moors]

I am intending to use DHCP flags to inform the PXE clients where to go to look for the boot file. I just don't know which file is used to start the process. In Microsoft's RIS, it's called "startrom.com", but I need to know the name and location of the boot file used by RDP. Can anyone help me out?

[Gordon Leonard]

You can not set these options in DHCP for RDP.

[Colin Moors]

That's it? Just impossible? So am I to assume that every PXE boot request will, in fact, return to the DHCP server instead of the RDP? That doesn't sound very good! Does anyone have any practical experience/solutions for this issue?

[Mark Hart_1]

I had this type of problem but couldn't find away around it, in the end I kept the PXE boot files on the DHCP server and edited them to connect to the RDP server

[Gordon Leonard]

That's it? Just impossible?

** Correct

So am I to assume that every PXE boot request will, in fact, return to the DHCP server instead of the RDP?

** The PXE will only return to the DHCP server if Option 60 is set otherwise it will broadcast for a PXE server. If you have a router between your PXE client and PXE server you'll need a helper an IP helper address on the router pointing to the PXE server. This would mean you would have two helper addresses if your DHCP server was also on another network.

That doesn't sound very good! Does anyone have any practical experience/solutions for this issue?

** Not sure what this means. It's how RDP PXE works. The RDP just desn't send a boot image it determines if the device has been seen before then it will send it one of two images. To do this it does a what I like to think of as a mini bootstrap after which will send the "correct" image.

[Colin Moors]

Gordon,

Many thanks for clarifying your reply for me. I may have sounded snippy, but that wasn't my intention. I was merely asking for other people's opinions and experiences. I understand better now, and will go and see what I can do to make things work correctly. Thanks again.

-C-