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http://forums.opensuse.org – Hello all, I have a question regarding booting from network. I have a environment with 2 computers owned by me in a bigger network. One of them is running Linux and one Windows. On the Linux PC I have low capacity HDD but I have to run on it multiple versions of Linux (like openSUSE 10.3, 11.2 etc.). Is there a possibility to create some Linux images and store them on Windows and load them from network at boot time? Notice that I cannot create a DHCP server since I am on the work network environment but I could set up a tftp server or something like that. Thanks, Ionut (Distributions)

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Submitted by bolly on 03/10/2010

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I'm looking for a way to set up clients in a network and have used TFTP so far. Messing around with the server I was able to do a path traversal with something similar like GET asdf/../../../../windows/win.ini. For this and other security considerations I'd like to to switch to something more secure.

What I want to do is the following:

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 (DC) with a running Active Directory. I added the role Windows Deployment Services and installed both Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7 and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1.

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Hello I am Currently looking to set up a network as to share files and a Printer on the network. I have a Desktop pc running PCLOS Gnome. I also have a Windows XP computer and finally my laptop which has Fedora 12 / Windows XP on it. I have a HP Office Jet 5610 That I would like to Share between the Three Computers.

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A funny thing happened this afternoon.

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