DHCP server ?

Hello list :)

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before...but here goes:

In a perfect world I would be running Linux DHCP server for our users. But
we have a totally MS dominated network.
When deploying thin clients over PXE I want to use different images for
different hardware.
I know this is easy doing on Linux where you can serve a specific image to a
specific MAC address. Is there another way ?
Take into consideration that all clients are not able to get static IP.
I havent really looked much at Remote Configuration yet.

Is it possible to use MS DHCP servers and make a remote config for a client
based on its MAC address ?

I found a post on the list from Diego which said:

The configurations files read are (in this order): 
default.conf 
<network>.conf 
<MAC>.conf 
<hostname>.conf 

MAC is the hex value (i.e: XXXXXXXXXX.conf)



The problem I'm trying to solve is that I have some thin clients who MUST
have the X 4.3 version. Because a buggy SiS chip that won't work with X
3.3.6.
The other clients run fine on X 3.3.6.

The image for X 4.3 adds up to 8.9 MB and the 3.3.6 image comes to 6.3 MB.
So I must give out 2 different images in a MS only environment.


Do I use Remote Config for this or is there another way ?

Regards,

Einar Eliassen

 



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