I had an issue using PuTTY (free Windows SSH client) this afternoon when trying to login to a work server. The error message seemed very odd:
Unable to open connection to andrewbevitt.com
gethostbyname: unknown error
OR BY IP ADDRESS
Unable to open connection to 220.233.157.156
Network error: Invalid argument
Turns out that it’s a Windows 7 feature. I had the PuTTY executable sitting on my Desktop as part of my domain account so apparently something executed out of $HOMEDIR\* gets limited.
Solution: Copy the executable to a local disk partition.
Work
putty, windows7, Work
I’ve been playing with Windows Deployment Services for rolling out Windows 7 Professional (from Server 2008 R2) over the last couple of days. Aside from a missing NIC driver everything seems to be fairly straight forward.
Plenty of documentation already exists on this subject, but I spent the good part of a day wading through it, so here I present a “get you up and running quickly” list of docs:
- Technet Step-by-Step (for Server 2003)
- Sysprep Windows 7
- Better Instructions for Discover Images (i.e. for non-pxe hardware)
Of course this set of articles is meant to just by a quick and dirty start… you’ll have to read deeper if you want definitive instructions on unattended remote installs. But not too much deeper. WindowsNetworking.com has the start of a set of articles on Windows 7 deployment which will probably help you out with that.
This is for as much my reference as anyone else.
Work
server2008, wds, windows7