When using the Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA) for PXE network booting, an administrator may notice that the first few PXE boots work normally, but later attempts fail with error:
System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found.
The message “System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found.” is a common native message of the Microsoft Windows operating system and is not directly related to the KACE SDA.
The message “System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found.” is a common native message of the Microsoft Windows operating system and is not directly related to the KACE SDA itself. It indicates that the client could not reach the SDA’s shared network resource (for example, \\10.11.11.100\peinst).
Please verify the following points:
ping without packet loss. If it only responds to its IP address and not its hostname, verify the DNS configuration.If the issue persists after basic checks:
For reference, see Microsoft’s related article: System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found