vnc into computer running ghost in winpe?

[Migration User]

Is is possible to setup one of the vnc programs in winpe so that we could check up on a computer's status while ghosting?

I saw this about setting up vnc and was wondering if it would work?

http://juice.altiris.com/article/4715/winpe-21-remote-control-ultravnc

 

If so is the winpe folder that virtual partitions are created from found at Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\common\winpe?

[Migration User]

If you are after a simple status whether computer is still alive and the progress of cloning then you can have a look at Ghostcast server progress, which will tell you precisely where cloning is at.

 

There are two winpes that are shipped with GSS 2.5 - winpe and winpe-512, both are stored under the mentioned folder. However they do not contain regular simple WIM files to boot from so I am not sure whether or not they will work with what discussed in this article. However I strongly suggest you do not use any of the WAIK tools on them - if something goes wrong you might be on your own :)

 

If you after injecting extra files (exe, scripts) into Winpe I suggest you use Ghost boot wizard for that.

 

Hope this helps.

[Migration User]

I got this to work with realvnc by exporting the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RealVNC key after configuring the user mode not serivce mode of RealVNC. I copied this reg file, winvnc4.exe and wm_hooks.dll into a folder in the winpe folder in c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\common\. Then I edited the start.bat file to add the below two lines:

regedit -s (path to reg file)\realvnc.reg

start (path to exe)\winvnc4.exe -noconsole

Message Edited by ghost123 on 07-31-2008 02:41 PM