Program to change ip and name given MAC Address

[machopeewee]

Hello everyone,
I am in a novell enviroment where our way of imaging is ghosting. So
everytime i image a lab in my school i have to go back and change all
the
computer names, ip address, and default login names. I would like to
either
write or find a script that i could run in the setup manager before i
sysprep my image that check the computer's MAC address and changes the
ip
and computername accordingly. I already have an inventory of all
computernames, ip and MAC address and am willing to spend a lot of time
writing if then statements, i am just looking for some help in writing
the
script or any advice at all. Thanks alot.
Joel Carlson

 

[billious]

Hello everyone,
I am in a novell enviroment where our way of imaging is ghosting. So
everytime i image a lab in my school i have to go back and change all
the
computer names, ip address, and default login names. I would like to
either
write or find a script that i could run in the setup manager before i
sysprep my image that check the computer's MAC address and changes the
ip
and computername accordingly. I already have an inventory of all
computernames, ip and MAC address and am willing to spend a lot of time
writing if then statements, i am just looking for some help in writing
the
script or any advice at all. Thanks alot.
Joel Carlson

So...give us the format of your inventory-of-computernames-etc file
(plain-text separated by commas, spaces, quote-delimited - what?) -
preferably post a representative sample ( a few lines will do)

Also - the format of your setup-manager script - describe the lines you want
to change from the template, such as 'after the line [Addresses] there's a
line "MAC=..." ' or post relevant samples

Tell us how you want to select the inventory-data. Do you want to manually
enter the MAC address and have the script locate the relevant data from the
inventory file? Do you want to present a file generated by UTILITYNAME and
have the script select the identity from the line (formatted how?) in that
file? - be generous with examples (and realise that many scripters don't
necessarily customarily deal with the utility-set that you use)

And finally, try asking in alt.msdos.batch.nt - a long-established
NT/2K/XP-batch discussion group.

HTH

....Bill

 

[David Wang [Msft]]

The instructions can depend on the target OS that you are imaging.
Everything you mention can be automated.

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Hello everyone,
I am in a novell enviroment where our way of imaging is ghosting. So
everytime i image a lab in my school i have to go back and change all
the
computer names, ip address, and default login names. I would like to
either
write or find a script that i could run in the setup manager before i
sysprep my image that check the computer's MAC address and changes the
ip
and computername accordingly. I already have an inventory of all
computernames, ip and MAC address and am willing to spend a lot of time
writing if then statements, i am just looking for some help in writing
the
script or any advice at all. Thanks alot.
Joel Carlson