Re: DHCP server ?

This may help....

http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/windows/etherboot-w2k.html

Trevor B

Quoting "Eliassen Einar (ErgoGroup)" <[email protected]>:

> 
> 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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