Windows hostname change fails in recent versions of Cygwin (since 1.7.28)
Wedge Jarrad
wedge.jarrad@gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 00:06:00 GMT 2014
Thank you for the replies.
>>> The following command used to allow me to change the hostname of a Windows
>>> machine:
>>>
>>> wmic computersystem where name=\"$COMPUTERNAME\" call rename name=newname
>>>
>>> With new installs of Cygwin this seems to have stopped working...
>
>> OK maybe I'm just missing something but what part of the above uses Cygwin?
>
> Shell prompt.
> The user were able to execute specific command with previous versions of
> Cygwin1.dll, but unable now.
Yes, exactly. The goal is to be able to SSH to the machine and run the command
but the same error occurs when running from a local Cygwin terminal.
> @Wedge, there was some changes around handling '=', which is SUDDENLY
> considered a separator character (that is, on par with space) for CMD.exe
> batch files parameters.
> I can't recall the exact dates, sorry.
Ok, that being the case what do I need to do to make the command execute
properly? Escaping? Quotes somewhere? I'm at a bit of a loss.
> Also, is the escaping of quotation marks around computer name necessary?
> Try without them.
Seems to be necessary. I get the following error when executing without quotes
and with un-escaped quotes. Even if I hard-code the current hostname rather
than using the $COMPUTERNAME variable.
ERROR:
Description = Invalid query
-Jarrad
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