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Password Protecting your Windows PE 2.1 Images
Location: BlogsJohan Arwidmark    
Posted by: johan 8/30/2008

As you probably know, WDS doesn't provide any security for it's native boot images (Windows PE 2.x). However, by adding pxelinux and vesamenu.c32 to WDS, you can add that feature. Here is how...

 

  1. Download and extract syslinux from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.71.zip (it contains pxelinux) 
     
  2. Copy the syslinux-3.71\com32\menu\vesamenu.c32 to your WDS Server, D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 and D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86 
     
  3. Copy the syslinux-3.71\core\pxelinux.o to your WDS Server, D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 and D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86, rename it to pxelinux.com 
     
  4. Download a nice background image (http://www.deployvista.com/Portals/0/DeploymentBackground.png), and save it in D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 and D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86  
     
  5. In the D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 and D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86 folders, make a copy of pxeboot.n12 and rename it to pxeboot.0 
     
  6. Configure WDS to use the pxelinux.com boot file (Server properties, Boot tab) 
     
  7. In the D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 and D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86 folders, create a subfolder called pxelinux.cfg 
     
  8. In the D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64\pxelinux.cfg and D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86\pxelinux.cfg folders, create a file named default with the following settings
     
    DEFAULT      vesamenu.c32
    PROMPT       0
    NOESCAPE     0
    ALLOWOPTIONS 0
    # Timeout in units of 1/10 s
    TIMEOUT 300
    MENU WIDTH 40
    MENU MARGIN 0
    MENU ROWS 12
    MENU TIMEOUTROW 14
    MENU HSHIFT 5
    MENU VSHIFT 2
    MENU COLOR BORDER 30;44       #00000000 #00000000 none
    MENU COLOR TABMSG 1;36;44     #00000000 #00000000 none
    MENU COLOR TITLE 1;36;44     #00000000 #00000000 none
    MENU COLOR SEL   30;47       #40000000 #20ffffff
    MENU BACKGROUND DeploymentBackground.png

    MENU TITLE PXE Boot menu
    MENU WIDTH 80
    MENU MARGIN 18
    MENU ROWS 4

    LABEL wds
     MENU       DEFAULT
     MENU PASSWD P@ssw0rd
     MENU       LABEL Windows Deployment Services
     KERNEL     pxeboot.0

    LABEL local
     MENU LABEL Boot from Harddisk
     LOCALBOOT 0 

 

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