can SAMBA assign win98 Hostnames?
Tim Fletcher
tim at parrswood.manchester.sch.uk
Thu Jan 18 14:19:50 GMT 2001
> I'm working on a project where we want to remote-control windows boxes
> via a linux server. It would be nice if we coul ddynamically assign not
> only IP-addresses but also hostnames.
>
> can samba (or anything else) do this?
I think that there are MS extensions to the dhcp protocol that do this,
were they are documented I don't know. Talk to a MS dhcp admin. You could
also do this with samba as follows: (this is just theory)
1. in run once put a .bat script into copy //linuxserver/machine/id.reg
onto c:\reg\id.reg on boot
2. In autoexec.bat put a call into regedit c:\reg\id.reg
3. On the linux server setup a share as this:
[machine]
path=/machines/%I
4. Create a set of dirs, one for each ip you use with the file id.reg in
which contains the following: (also attached in case formating is eaten)
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP]
"ComputerName"="My mahcines name"
"Workgroup"="My workgroup"
"Comment"="Something silly"
"StaticVxD"="vnetsup.vxd"
"Start"=hex:00
"NetClean"=hex:01
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\ComputerName\ComputerName]
"ComputerName"="My machines name"
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP]
"ComputerName"="laptop-401"
"Workgroup"="parrswood"
"Comment"="Faculty Laptop"
"StaticVxD"="vnetsup.vxd"
"Start"=hex:00
"NetClean"=hex:01
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\ComputerName\ComputerName]
"ComputerName"="laptop-401"
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