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Prasad--
some older Microsoft clients will accept a hostname (option 12) sent by a
server, but more recent clients do not (e.g., those for Win 95 and 98, and
NT). Pratik Gupta of IBM told me that there is a small utility that can be
downloaded for free from IBM's web site that modifies the Microsoft client
to accept option 12 and use it instead of the default "computer name."
While I have not tried the utility and don't know for certain of its
limitations and applicability, you might want to check it out. If it works
for you, great!
Carefully read the documentation for the configuration file:
"use-host-decl-names" controls the use of fixed (static) lease names as
option 12. I can also separately supply you with a hack to force option 12
to be sent to a client in this case, regardless of whether or not option 12
appears in the client's requested parameter list.
--Barr
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> Subject: Lease based on hostnames
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> hi ,
>
> I have different project groups and would like to assign specific
> hostnames isyntax for specific project groups . Ex: For BioMedical group I
> want
> to give all names medpc1,medpc2...And for imaging group imagpc1
> imagepc2... and all major groups belong to different subnets . Is there
> a way I can enforce a particular range of IPs to give out to only those
> PCs having proper hostname syntax ie a biomedical PC when gets
> connected should get IP only if hostname is medpc*
>
> Even good thing is if it was possible to give out proper hostnames also
> by
> DHCP itself (incremental hostnames) where we could define type of string
> we want ( Just my wild imagination ...)
>
> Right now, hostname syntax has become totally uncontrollable . As some
> people want their hostnames to be registered in DNS, few hostnames
> can not be put in DNS due to underscore charecters and similar problems
>
> Any idea how we can enforce hostnames syntax ?
>
> --
>
> Prasad
> 3-12 Ph : 874-2580
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