petroz

There's also a world of difference between what you interpreted from my last post and what I actually wrote...... I clearly said "The original question shows" not "mentioned." In simple terms, the OP does not like having to enter his pw when launching apps, dsenableroot is one approach of many to solve this. So take it as a approach, not a suggestion.

The advice is only bad if you appreciate the basic security features built into OS X and or *nix. The original question shows that security is not a concern, in fact its a burden. So enabling root will dissolve the need to use gksudo or sudo. I dont recommend using dsenableroot, but if your looking to launch all your apps without being prompted for a password, dsenableroot is the quickest way to have full root access to your entire OS.

M$ Licensing makes it pretty hard to just use any old XP cd. But if you can boot to a CD the odds are that Ophcrack will get you that pesky password your looking for.

I did not find it necessary to have a driver repository when using WDS and WIM's. Think of wim images as ghost images, they retain all drivers. Also never had to place my sysprep anywhere other than the root of the WIM image. You can drasticlly simplify your process by adding a couple of batch files that use tools like netdom(binding), reg add/delete, curl (for renaming via DB's) and last but not least Great Work on the Unattended.XML!!!

Just finished a massive deployment of WindowsXP to Mac's and PC's, via WDS and WinPE for the PC's and ntfsclone and Jamf for the Mac's. WDS works alright for XP, but I ran into a few quirks that might save you all a buttload of time:: using imagex /capture to a mapped drive never produced a valid image.. external hdd is faster and more reliable, using /compress fast & /compress maximum in imagex is a crap shoot and rarely captures a valid image... try /compress none, if you need to /append... dont do it to any image installed in WDS, watch out for those pesky "hidden" partitions as WDS does not see them, IP helpers are your friend when deploying across site2site VPN's, make sure your boot.wim does not have a pid.txt in it, dont let WDS do auto-binding.. try netdom, imagex /mountrw is a helpfull little option when you have to make changes... be sure to /unmount /commit if you plan to save your changes, and last but not least pray to whatever you believe in for patience...... I am working on some step by steps for WDS and XP and will post links When I am done.

You could just enable root if your on leopard. I.E. dsenableroot Have Fun!!

You Rock NetRestore!! Just wanted to add that ntfsclone is another approach to capturing your XP image. I have some hefty little scripts for capturing and deploying if anyone's interested.

Great tip, Just to add to this great tip, check out the dsconfigad, this little command has the same functionality of Directory Access, but it can be scripted!!

Check out Ubuntu Releases One of the "alternate" versions that supports "text mode" installation might solve your problem.