Speaking of Suppressing Domain Logins...

[JBCurry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Armand Welsh
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:10 PM
> To: samba-ntdom at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Speaking of Suppressing Domain Logins...
>  
> what you need to do, is to is get a hold of NT workstation.  
> Period.  Unless someone has third party application to do this,
> it won't work. 

Due to cost of replacing installed base, this wouldn't be an option for us.
 
> The ip stack doesn't exist in DOS prior to win9x bootup, and
> therefore, you can't ping the PDC from the autoexec.bat.
> you could try use net start, then pinging, but then you will have
> problems beyond that, because you shouldn't use the dos based
> network drivers, prior to launching windows.

Would there be problems with loading and then unloading the drivers?
(i.e. "net start", ping, change registry, "net stop"??)

> And yes, the regedit.exe program can import/export registry keys
> from the DOS system.

I'll have to look into the syntax for doing so.  Thanks for the input!!

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Colby" <kevinc at grainsystems.com>
> To: "JBCurry" <jbcurry at hline.localhealth.net>
> 
> 
> > JBCurry wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. How can I determine TRUE:FALSE of whether a PCD exists on 
> the network
> > > 2. Can I determine this AND run a <filename>.reg before the 
> domain login
> > > dialogue pops up?
> >
> > Would it be possible to ping a known DC IP in the autoexec.bat and
> > conditionally apply the registry patch?  This depends on:
> >
> >    a)  Can you know, in advance, the DC's IP?
> >    b)  Can you apply registry updates before Windows actually loads?
> >
> > - Kevin Colby
> >   kevinc at grainsystems.com
> >
> >
> 
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