Invalid Credentials: The Network location cannot be reached

I am working with MDT 2010, and I am getting the error, "Invalid Credentials: The Network location cannot be reached." When I run the LiteTouch 64 bit, I don't think the network is working. It's like there is not driver for the network card in
the LiteTouch 64 bit to make the network connection. When I hit F8 key, it brings a DOS box up for testing, and I found out these things.
- I can ping the loop back address 127.0.0.1.
- Cannot use the net use command to connect to the server share \\server01\DeploymentSahre$.
- I can not ping by name or IP address the server that is holding my Deployment Share.
This is the first time I am working with this technology, and I was following a guide off the Technet library. It almost like I am missing the driver for the network card. I have Windows Deployment installed on server01, the server will answer,
and I am able to put in my user name and password, it accepts and starts loading.
I did figure out how to inject the network drivers into Windows Deployment for the Motherboard I was using, do I have to do the same thing here again? MDT is using the Windows Deployment Images on the server01; MDT is setup on server01. I would have
thought that since the driver was already injected into the Image MDT would use that as well. So, do I need to put a driver into the LiteTouch 64bit image and if I do how do I do that?
thanks very much for your help,
Rick Arnold
ArnoldConsult
Rick Arnold Arnoldconsult, MCP

If you haven't updated the deployment share after adding the proper drivers to OOBD then your LiteTouch boot images will not have them included. Just right click the deployment share and click on Update Deployment Share, it will take a while but it
will rebuild the boot images with the drivers you've included in OOBD. Then it's just a matter of either recreating the flash drives or loading the updated image into WDS.
Another thought:
We had an issue with some HP's that had Main Boards replaced. the BIOS time was WAY off and the UUID wasn't setting itself because the network was denying it access to our servers (because of the horribly wrong time). Once we corrected the time
in the BIOS everything ran fine. The error we got while trying to do the deployment was the same as what you describe and we could still ping various machines on the network too.

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