RE: DNS Search Suffixes option ?
*** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** 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 -Original Message- From: Ted Lemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:46 PM To: PINTO Paulo Sergio Cc: Dhcp-Server (E-mail) Subject: Re: DNS Search Suffixes option ? *** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** I need to supply my DHCP clients (mainly Win9x/NT Workstation) with a couple of DNS suffixes, but after looking at the dhcp-options man page I can't seem to find'em. There's no way to do this - it's not currently supported in the protocol. You can't do it with the Microsoft server either, AFAIK. The server doesn't seem too hard to configure .. but what about the client ? Unless you feel like doing some serious Windows hacking, forget it. _MelloN_ --- List Archives : http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/dhcp-server/ Unsubscribe : http://www.isc.org/dhcp-lists.html -or- : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe --- --- List Archives : http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/dhcp-server/ Unsubscribe : http://www.isc.org/dhcp-lists.html -or- : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe ---
RE: DNS Search Suffixes option ?
*** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** 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 :) -Original Message- 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 ? *** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** 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 -Original Message- From: Ted Lemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:46 PM To: PINTO Paulo Sergio Cc: Dhcp-Server (E-mail) Subject: Re: DNS Search Suffixes option ? *** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** I need to supply my DHCP clients (mainly Win9x/NT Workstation) with a couple of DNS suffixes, but after looking at the dhcp-options man page I can't seem to find'em. There's no way to do this - it's not currently supported in the protocol. You can't do it with the Microsoft server either, AFAIK. The server doesn't seem too hard to configure .. but what about the client ? Unless you feel like doing some serious Windows hacking, forget it. _MelloN_ --- List Archives : http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/dhcp-server/ Unsubscribe : http://www.isc.org/dhcp-lists.html -or- : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe --- --- List Archives : http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/dhcp-server/ Unsubscribe : http://www.isc.org/dhcp-lists.html -or- : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe --- --- List Archives : http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/dhcp-server/ Unsubscribe : http://www.isc.org/dhcp-lists.html -or- : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe ---
RE: DNS Search Suffixes option ?
*** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** 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. _ .| Trust the computer industry to |_) || [EMAIL PROTECTED] | shorten "Year 2000" to Y2k. It was |_)_| | this kind of thinking that caused Passauer_| Residence Computing | the problem in the first place. On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Rolen, Mark E. wrote: *** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** 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 :) -Original Message- 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 ? *** From dhcp-server -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** 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 --- List Archives : http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/dhcp-server/ Unsubscribe : http://www.isc.org/dhcp-lists.html -or- : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe ---
RE: DNS Search Suffixes option ?
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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 :)
Perl is your friend, I run the following in our nt login scripts it should
give you some idea of how to use perl for making registry changes.
# First outline user hack script
# to do:- get OS details, user details, build database of installed
# patches etc...in fact lots :)
use strict;
use Win32::Registry qw( REG_SZ REG_DWORD );
use Win32;
my $installedpatches="SOFTWARE\\COEPatches\\InstalledPatches";
my $waitfor="_INS5576._MP";
my $failedpatches="SOFTWARE\\COEPatches\\FailedPatches";
my $Software;
my $InstalledPatches;
my $Coepatches;
my $FailedPatches;
my $currentpatch;
my $newpatch;
my $newfiles;
my $CoePatches;
my $currenttime;
my $HKCU;
my $HKLM;
my $hostname;
my $username;
my $Domain;
my $SID;
my $SIDtype;
$main::HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Open("SOFTWARE", $Software) or die "Open: $! ";
$main::HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Open($installedpatches,$InstalledPatches);
if($InstalledPatches) {
print("Registry Entry for Patches exists\n");
}else {
print ("Creating Registry entries to hold patch information\n");
$Software-Create("CoePatches", $CoePatches) or die "Create: $!";
$CoePatches-Create("InstalledPatches",$InstalledPatches) or die "Create: $1";
$CoePatches-Create("FailedPatches", $FailedPatches) or die "Create: $1";
}
my $installtime;
my $patchno="undefined";
my $os=$ENV{"OS"};
print "os found $os\n";
my $NT="Windows_NT";
my $hostname=$ENV{"COMPUTERNAME"};
my $username=$ENV{"USERNAME"};
#Why does notepad do wierd things with the || bit in this?
open (PATCHID,"patchid") or die "oops...what patch am I supposed to be$!";
#ÝÝ die "cannot open PATCHID\nIs patch.pl being run from it's own directory?\n";
$patchno= PATCHID;
chomp($patchno);
$InstalledPatches-Open($patchno,$currentpatch);
if ( $currentpatch) {
printf("Patch $patchno is already installed\n");
}
else {
my $wait=1;
printf("Installing patch $patchno\nPlease wait\n");
if ( $os eq $NT) {
#Registry Hack to do filename completion
$main::HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Open("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Command
Processor", $HKCU) or die "Open: $! ";
$HKCU-SetValueEx("CompletionChar",0,REG_DWORD,0x09);
#Registry Hack to turn off drive letters
$main::HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Open("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\Explorer",
$HKCU) or die "Open: $! ";
$HKCU-SetValueEx("NODRIVES",0,REG_DWORD,24);
#Registry hack to force hung tasks to end when logging off
$main::HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Open("Control Panel\\Desktop", $HKCU) or die
"Open: $! ";
$HKCU-SetValueEx("AutoEndTasks",0,REG_SZ,1);
$HKCU-SetValueEx("WaitToKillAppTimeout",0,REG_SZ,1);
print"Doing Postconfig\n";
system(".\\postinst.pl");
}
else {
}
if ( $os eq $NT) {
printf("Installing services.\n");
}
$installtime=localtime;
print "\n$currenttime";
$InstalledPatches-Create($patchno,$newpatch) or die "horribly $!";
$newpatch-Create("NewFiles", $newfiles) or die "horribly $!";
$newpatch-SetValueEx("Installdate",0,REG_SZ, $installtime);
}
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