Speaking of Suppressing Domain Logins...

[Armand Welsh]

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Ultimately, there is no real problem doing so, except that the drivers don't
completely unload.  They just log you out.  Windows will launch with the
drivers loaded in DOS, but depending on the windows version, and driver
versions, your results may very.  The domain login option, may or may not be
available, and the drivers may be in 16bit mode instead of 32bit mode.  And
in either case, the available system resources (lower 640K or system ram)
will be greatly reduced.  You might recall this was a problem in windows
3.x, and the fix for win9x was to move the system drivers to 32 code.
Although win9x can use 16 drivers, it returns to the win3x way of using
resources.

hth.

Armand.
----- Original Message -----
From: "JBCurry" <jbcurry at hline.localhealth.net>
To: "Armand Welsh" <armand at welshhome.org>; <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Speaking of Suppressing Domain Logins...


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> > -----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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>