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Re: Anyone Done This ???


Tennis Smith (tennis) schrieb:
 Has anyone written a utility/script that can change the name of the PC?  I
have several _dozen_ PCs that need to be converted to a new naming
convention.

isn't it just a registry entry?


cygwin cannot control remote registry entries (besides ssh'ing to each machine), but the win32 tool regedt32.exe can, and there's a COM API.

you only have to check out how to script that via COM
(Visual Basic, perl Win32::OLE, pythonwin, ....).
very easy.

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Reini Urban
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