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brandon
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Ghosting multiple computers on a domain
Mar 1
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I am in the IT field and my company is in the midst of upgrading most of the users' computers. Is it possible to do multiple ghosting thru a network at the same time? This can save up alot of time and manpower. Wondering if anyone here has successfully done it before?
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Re: Ghosting multiple computers on a domain
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Mar 1
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, 2006 at 9:39am
brandon
What you are looking for is probably the *Corporate* or *Enterprise* versions of Ghost.
Symantec's current offering along this line is here:
Symantec LiveState Recovery Advanced Server Suite
Those versions have server capabilities, and in the older Ghost versions (like v8.xx) you see terms like Ghost Console, and Ghost Casting for delivering Ghost images to multiple machines over networks.
Stand-alone consumer versions of Ghost will not have these abilities.
There does not appear to be a lot of *Enterprise* users that frequent these forums, however--so you may not get much response here.
No question is stupid...but, possibly the answers are
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(This is an old *NightOwl* user account--not in current use. Current account is NightOwl without a dash at the end.)
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Re: Ghosting multiple computers on a domain
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, 2006 at 8:25pm
Hi NightOwl,
Many thanks for your response. I'll probably try to get a trial version and test it out first. Thanks again =)
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Re: Ghosting multiple computers on a domain
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Hi Brandon,
I use the Ghostcast Server to multicast images to multiple computers. It is very easy and very fast. You just need a DHCP environment and you setup the ghost cast server (quick install) on a main machine and then multicast out from it or back to it from a "model" computer.
I am just trying to figure out how to make a bootable cd that has the necessary network drivers that you need to have on it for it to talk. I can do this in Ghost but it makes 2 floppies and I'm having problems combining them onto one bootable cd.
I am multicasting to ibms so i had to add the ndis driver for the broadcom network card...easy to find on their site. you should definitely try it. It is totally worth it!
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Re: Ghosting multiple computers on a domain
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, 2006 at 6:38pm
Making a ghost cd with nic drivers is not that complicated. I use a cd that contains multiple nic drivers and ghost 8.2 ce.
Here is a website that may be a useful to you.
http://help.ischool.washington.edu/faqs/12_29_en.html
You will have to modifiy this to suit your environment, but with a little patience you should be off in no time. I use winimage to edit my boot disk. it makes it easier.
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Mar 20
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Has anyone used the GhostCast Server from BartPE? The Ghost 8.2 plugin seems to allow this. One big advantage with BartPE is that you can add just about every Storage and NIC driver known to mankind in about 60 seconds.
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