Hello,
I'm beating my head against the desk here with this problem, been working on it for a couple days now and have made no progress. I have MDT / WDS setup on server 2016. I'm able to PXE boot , I get to the MDT Screen and get the credentials popup to connect to the deployment share. No matter what I use I cannot authenticate I just get "Invalid Credentials: The network path was not found". Now as of typing this up I don't even get a prompt I just get " can't access deployroot"
-I've dropped into the prompt and verified end to end connectivity via ping ( both by IP and hostname)-The deployment share has everyone read permissions
-I can manually access the share with "net use xxxxx" and it authenticates with the local account and my domain admin account ( in the format of "@domain" ) from win PE once pxe booted into it. Also verified access from other domain computers.
-I've verified the share is defined correctly in both the bootstrap ( on the WDS box and once it's pxe'd via cmd) and in the MDT Share -> Properties -> General
-I've defined both my domain username and the local account in the bootstrap file and tried to get it to bypass the manual authentication.
-I verified the bios time is correct on the test laptop(Found and obscure Microsoft Forum post saying this fixed this for a user)
-I've noticed that the error shows it can't connect to the FQDN even though in my bootstrap.ini and properties I have it mentioned as explicitly the hostname. I've installed DNS on the WDS server and verified it can lookup the FQDN however even when litetouch does a lookup from CMD it can't resolve the FQDN. I've manualy added the entry to the hosts file via CMD once booted and clicked retry but the error persists.
I'm a bit lost here on what to try next, I even made a completely new deployment share to test if maybe I FUBAR'd some config and didn't know.