Hi
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Louis Mandelstam wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann wrote:
> >
[snip-snip]> > > Well, I'm using DHCP to configure the clients. This applys to
the bootdisk
> > > too, but the NetBIOS name seems to be hardcoded in the
net\system.ini file...
> > > Ugly.
> >
> > It does - the best I could do was to automatically alter system.ini
and
> > restart the client.
>
> Yep. And with the DOS client knowing how to alter system.ini is hard, but
> the above might work.
I solved it by the similiar method as described by someone else in
the previous digest - IP->name resolving of address obtained by DHCP.
The whole boot stuff is on
"ftp://k332.feld.cvut.cz/pub/priv/smb-ro.tar.gz".
It uses DIS_PKT9.DOS (NDIS->Packet Driver converter) to emulate PD
for NSLOOKUP.EXE of WATTCP (only binary remained - anyone knows 'bout
license conflicts?).
Also this configuration is able to boot from write-protected media
(current setup for write-protected C: with binaries in C:\BOOT and using
D: as read-write for some temporary files). When changing these directories
- don't forget to update also SMBREDIR.ASM appropriately and recompile
by TASM.
The whole boot is in one go without any restarts.
P.S.: Friend of mine will hopefully send me tomorrow the patches I made
before (on distant machine) for Samba/Shadow suite to allow
remote-password-change.
Hope it helps,
Jan "Lace" Kratochvil