register alternate info via dynamic dns

[Tom Jackson]

Ok here is an interesting question I am looking at. I have no problems using
DDNS in the standard manner for which it was designed. What I want to do is
the following.

I have

domain.com being handed out to all of the pc's via DHCP and the zone
domain.com is on a windows 2003 dns server. It is an AD integrated zone with
dynamic updates enabled.

I want as part of a logon script for my users in AD something akin to the
following psuedo code.


registerrecord %username%.users.domain.com CNAME
%computername%.domain.com

and a logoff script that does this

deleterecord %username%.users.domain.com CNAME %computername%.domain.com

So that if someonecalls me up and says that they are having a problem I can
find out which computer they are currently logged on to via ping or
nslookup. This would also allow me to offerthem remote assistance with
Windows XP by username.users.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Tom

 

[Tom Jackson]

Now that I sent this I suppose since this is AD inetegrated I might be able
to do something like this via ADSI. using the MicrosoftDNS container of the
System container of the Domain.

I really would like to do this another way (so that systems other than MS
PC's could use it) but I'm going to try it this way.

Thanks