installation takes time, no mather what kind of WIndows license.... i assure you, my licenses (Volume License and Technet licenses) are all valid
The problems you ran into with that, are specific for installations on an XP machine (hence my request to drop support for installing SBC server on an XP machine in the other threads)
edit:
like i said... i dont know where the logs are placed on an XP machine with SBC....
did you configure the target machine with:
FIREWALL OFF (to test)
FILE SHARING turned on?
can you access the targeted machine from the SBC machine with: \\targetmachinename\c$ and \\targetmachinename\admin$
ps: right now im running into deployment problems myself too, still figuring out to work this out
let you know in another thread that i am posting later