Anyone Done This ???

[Reini Urban]

Tennis Smith (tennis) schrieb:
  Has anyone written a utility/script that can change the name of the PC?  I
> have several _dozen_ PCs that need to be converted to a new naming
> convention.   

isn't it just a registry entry?

cygwin cannot control remote registry entries (besides ssh'ing to each 
machine), but the win32 tool regedt32.exe can, and there's a COM API.

you only have to check out how to script that via COM
(Visual Basic, perl Win32::OLE, pythonwin, ....).
very easy.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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