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I am trying to boot a device through pxe, this device is connected to a windows embedded 8 (industry/standard) host pc.

It should be possible I think and searches point me in the direction to using WDS. I just cant seem to find any references talking about running WDS on windows embedded.

I have included the modules for dhcp server and internet connection sharing in the image configuration editor. But I cannot find any configuration options for it.

If I run netsh in a cmd window it only gives me the command for dhcpclient, not dhcp (server).

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Ow, and as a side note, I dont want to use any 3rd party dhcp server software.

Edit: It is acceptable to use other versions of windows embedded if they do support this feature. But I am convinced it should be able to work on the latest generation of Windows Embedded

Daanvl
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Unfortunately WDS is unavailable as a service to run from Windows Embedded. To get WDS on on your hardware you will have to run any version of Windows server from 2008 and up. Windows server 2003 has RIS which is for older OS (E.G. XP 200, etc...)

To answer your question, The only way to make your Windows Embedded system a PXE server is to run 3rd party tools. And if your going to run 3rd party tools and only use your hardware as a PXE server, then I would recommend Linux.

Links: WDS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Deployment_Services

Windows Embedded - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded

Ubuntu Server -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Ubuntu_Server

Ubuntu server PXE - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallServer

TL;DR: No WDS on Win Embedded. Use Win Server for WDS. If you want to deploy older OSs (E.G. XP) or non MS OSs try Linux (E.G. Ubuntu Server).

Elliot Huffman
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