Re: [Tutor] Renaming computers

2006-03-23 Thread John Fouhy
On 24/03/06, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Microsoft has a repository of sample python scripts for automat

Re: [Tutor] Renaming computers

2006-03-23 Thread Christian Wyglendowski
Danny Yoo wrote: > 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 You can also use WMI for thi

Re: [Tutor] Renaming computers

2006-03-23 Thread Danny Yoo
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 pro

Re: [Tutor] Renaming computers

2006-03-23 Thread traceyandjoe
Hello there, 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 t