I am trying to automate Ghosting via Multi-Casting - specifically Uni-casting since in most cases I'm only doing one machine at a time. Multi-casting doesn't work the way it used to since we upgraded our Core Router. As such I need to specify the fullowing parameters via the Ghost or Ghost32 User Interface:
Mode: Unicast
Multi-cast session name: AV6300Save
Multicast Server Address 192.168.194.66 (changed to protect the innocent ...)
My Switch File (savec.swi) contains the following lines:
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-clone,src=2,dst=@MCAV6300Save
-span
-ia
-auto
-JA=AV6300Save
-JADDR=192.168.194.66
-JM=U
============
My ghost Command line is:
Ghost32.exe -script=savec.swi
**** When I run the command above to envoke ghost with the switch file, Ghost32 runs and displays the initial screen and says at the bottom (on the Status line): "Attempting to contact Session <AV6300Save>..." but never contacts the session :-(
If I kill the program and run it again CMD>ghost32.exe without any parameters and specify the needed parameters via the Program UI, it joins the session immediately an starts to upload to the server.
What am I doing wrong??
This is one area that is not documented very well, the use of a script file.
*** Is the Clone command line really needed if everything is specified by the GhostCast Server session - something that is not touched on in the Docs.
Rob