On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could you point me in the right direction, after we have ghosted the
> machines in college we have to rename them, I would like to try and
> write a program that does this through matching the MAC address with the
> computer but I'm quite new to programming and need some advice on where
> to start
Hi Joe,
This project seems doable but will take a bit of work to get right.
For introductions on fundamental programming concepts, you may find the
tutorials in:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers
very helpful in getting up to speed. If you have questions while going
through a tutorial there, please feel free to ask the group here, and we
will be happy to help.
Once you have a foundation for programming, you should be able to better
tackle the problem. Your proposed problem sounds very operating-system
dependent, and assuming that the machines you're talking about are Windows
boxes, you may want to talk with the python-win32 folks to see how to go
about this. They have a mailing list here:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
There are examples of programs that people have written to automate some
Windows administration tasks. For example:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/347812
is code to get the MAC address of one's ethernet card, and
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/360649
is a recipe that automates remote system reboots! So I think it's just a
matter of knowing what particular win32 calls need to be done to change
the Windows name of a machine.
Unfortunately, I really don't know Windows very well. I'd recommend
poking around with the win32 folks and see if it's possile to get/set the
computer name of a Windows machine.
But learn a little bit of programming first, at least enough so that you
can understand their advice! *grin*
Good luck to you.
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