Supermicro IPMI and Windows Share

Solution 1:

I'm not familiar with IPMI, so take this as you wish, but you should probably use an UNC path instead of a drive letter. After all, it's talking about a Windows share.

Try to create a network share on your server, with a path of C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\OperatingSystems\, and name it OperatingSystems, for example. Then, use the UNC path in IPMI, though I'm not sure in what format the parameters are expected.

Solution 2:

The error reported by the web interface is misleading - what it really wants is to have the Path to image: entry beginning with a backslash (\) so it would look like \sharename\filename.iso. The host name (or IP address) in the Share host field has to be entered without backslashes though.

The share has to be an SMB share, but at least the BMC thingy is using NTLMv2 authentication, so it works with current Windows servers out of the box (i.e. without modifying security settings or installing additional software) and presumably should also work with Samba as well.

Solution 3:

On my SMT-based IPMI 2.0, which is a rather old generation, a ISO-image won't mount no matter what. I had success via Java-console, which also allows mounting images.