[Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

[Toby Bluhm]

Frank Bonnet wrote:
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> Toby Bluhm wrote:
>> Frank Bonnet wrote:
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>>> Hello
>>>
>>> We are facing a bit boring problem
>>>
>>> We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11
>>> as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several
>>> hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same
>>> IP address for the new PDC.
>>>
>>> The problem is windows clients does not update the name of network
>>> drives and keep the old names even connected to the new PDC server
>>> and it's new shares ...
>>>
>>> I suspect there are some caching mechanisms that are not completely
>>> cleaned (!!!) by windows.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any infos on "how to clean widows caches" are welcome.
>>>
>> If I understand you correctly, you mean everything is working just fine,
>> but the server name displayed in file explorer for the network drive
>> letter is still the old server name.
>>
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>> If that's it, check the registry:
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComputerDescriptions]
>>
>>
>> Delete the entries for the server & it will automatically refresh to the
>> current setting.
>>
>>
> 
> Hello
> 
> Thanks for the answer, but I have a problem to do that on our ~800
> windows PC ...
> 
> Is it possible to do it remotely or automate-it during boot up time ?
> 
> Thanks
> 

Something like this in your login script - should be all one line.


reg delete 
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComputerDescriptions 
/v servername_or_IP /f



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tkb