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Subject: Customizing Remote Reset
Date: August 5, 1990
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PROBLEM: While v2.1 remote reset is far from perfect, and while the
documentation is totally inadequate, there are workarounds
that provide the flexibility it appears to be missing at
first glance.
Here is the story. First of all, an AUTOEXEC.BAT file must
be placed in sys:login. This is not documented. All
statements after "NET3" will be executed from the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file in sys:login instead of from the
AUTOEXEC.BAT in the remote reset file. Since there can be
only one AUTOEXEC.BAT file in sys:login, all remote reset
files will wind up executing the "one and only" AUTOEXEC.BAT.
If the AUTOEXEC.BAT files used to construct the remote reset
files are of differrent lengths, there will be trouble. If
you want different remote reset files to execute different
commands following NET3, you must get clever.
SOLUTION: Here is a useful solution until Novell finds a proper
solution and implements it in some future version.
1. Use the DOS "SET" command to implement a switch in the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file used by "DOSGEN" to construct the remote
reset file. The switch must be set prior to executing NET3.
2. Set the switch to different values in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
files used to generate the required remote reset files, each
having a different name. The key to this whole thing is that
the values assigned to the switch variable MUST all be the
same length for this to work.
3. Setup BOOTCONF.SYS appropriately for workstations needing
than the default remote reset file.
4. Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in sys:login that checks the
value of the switch (using DOS "if" statement) and does one
thing or another depending on its value.
This technique will allow me to download different types of
gateway software and print server software (e.g., Brightworks
PS-Print) to diskless workstations without manual
intervention.