If you use a boot disk isn't the netbios name embedded in the INI files on the bootdisk? With a bootdisk, this name is not machine dependent. What is machine dependent is the MAC address of the network card. This can be retrieved in DOS using the utility "putinenv.exe". If you create a correspondence list of "Name - MAC" on the server then you can pull the name from the server once you have the MAC address. You could autocreate this correspondence list by writing an appropriate UDF in kixtart that ran at login time. Of course this would only help with rebuilds. New machines would need to be manually set either in DOS or Windows.
[ 02. December 2002, 16:20: Message edited by: Jack Lothian ]
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