Vista - Static IP in Vista Unattend installation

Hi,

I have generated an answer file for Windows Vista using the WAIK-tools.
Everything works just fine but I can't find any reference how to set a
static IP in unattend.xml. I have found the proper place (I think) for the
IP but can't seem to get the subnet mask set properly. Any ideas?


Thanks,

Hege

I have the same problem you do. I did get the subnet mask to work. Under unicastipaddress--ipaddress if put in the ip address in teh following format it works.

192.168.0.1/24 would give you a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
192.168.0.1/16 would give you a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0

Dont forget to put in the correct interface of the card default is

Local Area Connection

I am now stuck on default gateway I thinks its under routes-->NextHopAddress

But when ever I put in route info my vista install is failing for some reason. Let me know if you have any info on this

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I have the same problem you do. I did get the subnet mask to work.
Under unicastipaddress--ipaddress if put in the ip address in teh
following format it works.

192.168.0.1/24 would give you a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
192.168.0.1/16 would give you a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0

Dont forget to put in the correct interface of the card default is

Local Area Connection

I am now stuck on default gateway I thinks its under
routes-->NextHopAddress

But when ever I put in route info my vista install is failing for some
reason. Let me know if you have any info on this

"Hege Berg" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have generated an answer file for Windows Vista using the
> WAIK-tools.
> Everything works just fine but I can't find any reference how
> to set a
> static IP in unattend.xml. I have found the proper place (I
> think) for the
> IP but can't seem to get the subnet mask set properly. Any
> ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hege

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Ok,

I got this to work the static IP, subnet mask and default gateway. The <identifier> by default is Local Area Connection but could be somthing else. The IPaddress value with /24 give a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 /16 would give 255.255.0.0 the nexthopipaddress gives the default gateway. The prefix of 0.0.0.0/0 is something that finally got this to work. I was getting setup error before this.

<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-TCPIP" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Interfaces>
<Interface>
<Identifier>Local Area Connection</Identifier>
<Ipv4Settings>
<DhcpEnabled>false</DhcpEnabled>
</Ipv4Settings>
<UnicastIpAddresses>
<IpAddress wcm:keyValue="1">192.168.0.1/24</IpAddress>
</UnicastIpAddresses>
<Routes>
<Route wcm:action="add">
<Identifier>0</Identifier>
<Prefix>0.0.0.0/0</Prefix>
<NextHopAddress>192.168.0.254</NextHopAddress>
<Metric>20</Metric>
</Route>
</Routes>
</Interface>
</Interfaces>
</component>
</settings>

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Ok,

I got this to work the static IP, subnet mask and default gateway. The
<identifier> by default is Local Area Connection but could be somthing
else. The IPaddress value with /24 give a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
/16 would give 255.255.0.0 the nexthopipaddress gives the default
gateway. The prefix of 0.0.0.0/0 is something that finally got this to
work. I was getting setup error before this.

<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-TCPIP" language="neutral"
processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"
versionScope="nonSxS"
xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Interfaces>
<Interface>
<Identifier>Local Area Connection</Identifier>
<Ipv4Settings>
<DhcpEnabled>false</DhcpEnabled>
</Ipv4Settings>
<UnicastIpAddresses>
<IpAddress wcm:keyValue="1">192.168.0.1/24</IpAddress>
</UnicastIpAddresses>
<Routes>
<Route wcm:action="add">
<Identifier>0</Identifier>
<Prefix>0.0.0.0/0</Prefix>
<NextHopAddress>192.168.0.254</NextHopAddress>
<Metric>20</Metric>
</Route>
</Routes>
</Interface>
</Interfaces>
</component>
</settings>

"Hege Berg" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have generated an answer file for Windows Vista using the
> WAIK-tools.
> Everything works just fine but I can't find any reference how
> to set a
> static IP in unattend.xml. I have found the proper place (I
> think) for the
> IP but can't seem to get the subnet mask set properly. Any
> ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hege

I'm glad you found out how to do static ip / subnet / gateway. Thank
you! Do any of you know how to go about telling WinPE 2.0 to use a
particular nic when dealing with multiple nics in a machine? For
instance, lets say I am booting WinPE 2.0 on a client machine that has
an Intel and a 3com nic. In WinPE 1.6 I could specify the nic order to
be loaded in the winbom.ini based on the pci info
(vendor/device/subsystem ID) for the nic. In WinPE 2.0, I'm thinking
maybe the "Identifier" field in the unattend file has something to do
with it but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
Thanks!


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