Wireless support on PE 2.x/3.x External links Options

[Wonko the Sane]

Just in case it slipped by (as it did for me ):
http://www.msfn.org/board/new-support-wifi...37.html&hl=

Since the dawn of time, Windows PE (WinPE) has not had any support for the 802.1x authentication protocol. This meant that any network deployment of Windows via a network secured with 802.1x was a non-starter, causing headaches for a few on my customers; I actually had one customer that ran new network cables to a majority of the desks in order to be able to deploy Windows XP over the network.
However, thanks in part to a colleague of mine who worked on this, Microsoft has released hotfixes that now add 802.1x support to both WinPE 2.1 and WinPE 3.0. You can get the hotfixes and further information at the below links:

WinPE 2.1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975483
WinPE 3.0: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972831

Wonko

[wimb]

Unprotected Wireless Internet in Windows PE 3.0 was realized:
It is necessary to let dism Add WLAN drivers in specific way from provided folder WIN7_drivers.
As before, dism was also used to add winpe-wmi.cab and the HotFix WinPE_OCs\Windows6.1-KB972831-x86.cab

The WLANAPI missing message in PENetwork.exe was overcome by Adding WIN7_system32\wlanapi.dll of Windows 7 to system32
Internet access and PENetwork don't work yet for WPA encryption.
There is now a message for problem to be solved:

file netwzc.inf is missing, which is needed for support of Wireless Zero Configuration

Does anybody know how to make further improvements for support of WPA encryption ?

Code used to make Windows PE 3.0 - pe3w.iso

CODE

copype.cmd x86 F:\winpe3_x86

copy /y F:\winpe3_x86\winpe.wim F:\winpe3_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim

imagex.exe /mountrw F:\winpe3_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim 1 F:\winpe3_x86\mount

Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\winpe-wmi.cab"
Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_FPs\en-us\winpe-wmi_en-us.cab"
Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\WinPE_OCs\Windows6.1-KB972831-x86.cab"
:: Add WLAN drivers
Dism /image:F:\winpe3_x86\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:F:\winpe3_x86\WIN7_drivers /recurse
:: Add wlanapi.dll
xcopy.exe F:\winpe3_x86\WIN7_system32\*.* F:\winpe3_x86\mount\Windows\System32\ /i /k /e /r /y /h
:: Add Browse for Folder support by making empty folder Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop
md F:\winpe3_x86\mount\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop

imagex.exe /unmount /commit F:\winpe3_x86\mount

oscdimg.exe -n -m -o -bF:\winpe3_x86\etfsboot.com F:\winpe3_x86\ISO F:\winpe3_x86\pe3w.iso

More Info: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...mp;#entry161011
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry906396

Windows PE 3.0 with Wireless Internet - Opera Portable and PENetwork.exe
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[Wonko the Sane]

It seems to me like a small step big leap in the right direction.

Very, VERY good work!



Wonko

[Holger]

Oh, this is also a bug
The file which is missing is the "netnwifi.inf".

Maybe I should update it...I'm still working on it but at the moment only on the porting to C++...
Greets Holger

[wimb]

Wireless Internet with WPA2-PSK + AES Encryption is realized in Windows PE 3.0

I have used Registry Settings from Windows 7 edited according to PENetwork.script of Holger
And I have added in Windows PE 3.0 the missing but Required files according to Holger's script.

More details will follow ....

Windows PE 3.0 with Wireless Encrypted Internet - Opera Portable and PENetwork.exe
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[wimb]

I have tried in Windows PE 3.0 to make Network Drives and to Share Local Folders.
The first thing to overcome was to add some extra registry values from Windows 7
so that it became possible to Start the LanmanServer.

Added were from Enum\Root\ the entries for LEGACY_SRV LEGACY_SRV2 LEGACY_SRVNET
and 7 Services: LanmanServer srv srv2 srvnet Netlogon NlaSvc LanmanWorkstation
and I have added files related to these services and I have used netserv.inf of Windows 7

Making Network Drives of folders shared by other computer is working OK,
but Sharing the folders on local computer results in Error as indicated.

What will be needed extra to make this last step working ?

I get the impression that in PE 3.0 Security blocks my attempts to Share Local drives or folders.
Probably a User Account with Password is needed ...

In any case until now I cannot Start Network Location Awareness and Netlogon Services .....
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Windows PE 3.0 with Network Drive Z: and Sharing Error
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[dera]

for me sharing folder works only in that case when the firewall service is stopped

at build time i use
ControlSet001\Services\MpsSvc Start 4
and
ControlSet001\Services\Ikeext Start 2

seems if 'MpsSvc Start 3' used then the MpsSvc service starts when PENetwork initialize the network
in this case for me sharing folder is not successful

[wimb]

for me sharing folder works only in that case when the firewall service is stopped

at build time i use
ControlSet001\Services\MpsSvc Start 4
and
ControlSet001\Services\Ikeext Start 2

seems if 'MpsSvc Start 3' used then the MpsSvc service starts when PENetwork initialize the network
in this case for me sharing folder is not successful

Thanks dera,

Disabling the Firewall in build with registry setting ControlSet001\Services\MpsSvc Start 4 has solved the problem.

Now I can Share drives and folders, but only for the originally given permissions.
Changing permissions is not yet possible in Windows PE 3.0. I have got to look at this.

The new created Share GDOWN of folder Downloads is not accessible yet at other computer running XP.
But folders of Windows 7 Users and XP drive and folder with given permission are accessible allready.
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Windows PE 3.0 with Network Drives Z: and Y: and Sharing of Local Drives
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[dera]

The new created Share GDOWN of folder Downloads is not accessible yet at other computer running XP.

i think it is mandatory to define the 'Username:' and 'Password:' in PENetwork's 'File Sharing' window,
i can access the shared forlder from other XP computer if i map that shared network path to drive letter,
or when i disable the guest account on the booted WinPE 3.0
(net.exe user guest /active:no)

p.s.
i have tried on PE made by the Win7RescuePE project,
regarding permission
try to share via 'fsmgmt.msc'
or via command
net.exe share sharename=drive:\path /grant:user,read|change|full

[wimb]

Username and Password were defined in PENetwork.
On remote computer I can map shared network path to drive letter,
and can see all folders, but get no permission for access.

Disable the guest did not solve the problem.

fsmgmt.msc is not yet available in Windows PE 3.0 and simple adding it does not work yet.
So I have got to add some more functionality from Windows 7

The net.exe share commands are working, but they also don't give the permission.