[wpkg-users] same hostnames

[Peter Hartmann]

Beautiful!

Thanks,
Peter

On 8/20/07, Dany Chouinard <chouinard.dany at csob.qc.ca> wrote:
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> Greeting Peter and the list,
>
> While looking something else (on this site :
> http://www.cgfiles.com/tutorials/unattended/index.html) I found this guy
>  using a utility called WSNAME to manage the names of computers.
>
> Using a statement like this :
>
>   wsname /RDF:"z:\SCRIPTS\compnames.txt" /DFK:$MAC
>
> and a text file  looking like this :
>   0007E963EC42 = ANIM01
>   0007E9646643 = ANIM02
>   0013D4440A96 = DIGI01
>
> You can ensure that each computer gets it's own unique name.
>
> The application can be found here :
>     http://mystuff.clarke.co.nz/MyStuff/wsname.asp
>
> Dany Chouinard
>
> Peter Hartmann a écrit :
> > I've come  across an organization, actually a bunch of them, who have
> > many computers in a domain that have the same hostname.  Can anyone
> > point out any barriers or caveats to keeping things this way with
> > wpkg?   Musing: I guess logging back to the server is out unless the
> > hostname is appended with an ip, which i have seen happen in windows
> > explorer.  But still how to find a specific computer.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> >

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