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I know this may be heading off topic, and this isn't a "Microsoft
Tips" list, but I thought it might help with the little "hack"
mentioned below. Change your login script to say:
regedit /s searchdomain.reg
The "/s" will keep the little dialogue box from popping up and the
user having to click on the OK button.
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Rolen, Mark E. wrote:
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> By the way, if anyone has a smoother, even less intrusive way to do this
> reghack (it *IS* far faster than doing it manually), I'd be curious to learn
> it :)
>
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> From: Rolen, Mark E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 3:00 PM
> To: 'Ted Lemon'; PINTO Paulo Sergio
> Cc: Dhcp-Server (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: DNS Search Suffixes option ?
>
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> Best I've found is this simple reghack that runs in the login script (this
> is only on win9x clients):
>
>
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP]
> "EnableDNS"="1"
> "HostName"="host"
> "Domain"=""
> "SearchList"="primary.com,secondary.com,tertiary.com"
> "NameServer"=""
>
>
> This lets me give 3 (or more) domains, while still pulling the IP address
> for the nameserver from DHCP. Of course, it has a glitch or two, i.e. a
> user has to click on 'OK' becase they get a dialog box stating "domain.reg
> has been sucessfully entered into the registry", and it's really only good
> for machines that are going to remain on a desktop because if the machine
> wanders to yet another domain (ISP at home if a laptop) and pulls DHCP, the
> domain it gets doesn't seem to override the search order, so no resolution.
> But for me, where I had hundreds of machines that were never going to leave
> the building, this worked great. Reboot them, log them into the domain
> once, and they're done. Then I turned off the reghack in the login script
> and just run it manually from a share for any new builds that go out to the
> floor.
>
> Maybe it'll help in your case, maybe not.
>
> Mark
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