-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Toby Bluhm wrote: > Frank Bonnet wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello >> >> We are facing a bit boring problem >> >> We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 >> as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several >> hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same >> IP address for the new PDC. >> >> The problem is windows clients does not update the name of network >> drives and keep the old names even connected to the new PDC server >> and it's new shares ... >> >> I suspect there are some caching mechanisms that are not completely >> cleaned (!!!) by windows. >> >> >> Any infos on "how to clean widows caches" are welcome. >> > > If I understand you correctly, you mean everything is working just fine, > but the server name displayed in file explorer for the network drive > letter is still the old server name. > > > If that's it, check the registry: > > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComputerDescriptions] > > > Delete the entries for the server & it will automatically refresh to the > current setting. > >
Hello Thanks for the answer, but I have a problem to do that on our ~800 windows PC ... Is it possible to do it remotely or automate-it during boot up time ? Thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkooyX8ACgkQ6f7UMO5oSsUXMQCeKFazkku82xY4FXsvZo6H7QRX jpAAn1ApT+nyUi2d4cLUI5jj7Exu3oua =jhEt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba