WDS - Clients receive Error: PXE-E53: No boot filename received

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I have setup WDS on Windows 2008 server in a Vmware box so I can practise setting up WDS,the server has DNS and DHCP as well as AD, the boot image is confirmed as working but when my clients try to boot up it does not work.

I have checked the following:

Clients can ping the WDS server.
The WDS service is started
Boot images for X86 and X64 are deployed.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WDSServer\Providers\WDSPXE
UseDhcpPorts has been set to 0

My clients just receive Error: PXE-E53: No boot filename received.

Any idea what could be wrong?

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