Client Setup is Unable To Validate Windows Path (150512)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1
This article was previously published under Q150512

SYMPTOMS

When you run a shared installation of Windows from a NetWare server, where your Windows directory also resides on a NetWare server, the following error will occur while running cli_dos in verbose mode: 

   Reading configuration...Could not Validate Windows path:
   <Path to Windows directory>


where <Path to Windows directory> denotes the complete path to the Windows directory on the NetWare server. For example, \USERS\JOHNDOE\WIN31.

NOTE: This problem occurs on NetWare clients running NETX only. This problem does not occur on NetWare clients running VLM.

WORKAROUND

When you run the setup /n from the Windows administrative share on the NetWare server, specify that the Windows directory be installed locally (that is, C:\windows).

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available

MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft Knowledge Base article 140781, "How Systems Management Server Detects a Windows Client," states the following:

NOTE: Shared Windows is currently not supported by Systems Management Server, but a reasonable effort has been made to contend with it.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/8/2002
Keywords:kbnetwork kbprb kbsetup KB150512
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