change a DSN with DOS commands
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Original Message
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Name: Green4Ever
Date: October 22, 2003 at 01:10:24 Pacific
Subject: change a DSN with DOS commands
OS: NT 4.0
CPU/Ram: PIII G1
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Comment: Hello, Does someone know if it's possible to change the properties (e.g. path) of a DSN with DOS commands? How can I do that?
Thx!
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Response Number 1
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Name: x86
Date: October 22, 2003 at 05:42:27 Pacific
Subject: change a DSN with DOS commands
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Reply: (edit)There is no M$-DOS in the NT family, it is an emulation called COMMAND PROMPT....
http://senac.com/forums/4356/bin/1988.html
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Response Number 2
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Name: Green4Ever
Date: October 22, 2003 at 06:34:53 Pacific
Subject: change a DSN with DOS commands
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Reply: (edit)I do know the difference between DOS and the emulation you are talking about...
But, does this mean that you also don't have a solution to my problem?
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Response Number 3
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Name: x86
Date: October 22, 2003 at 08:41:28 Pacific
Subject: change a DSN with DOS commands
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Reply: (edit)If you know the difference, therefore why are you asking for DOS commands??. You need to use NT specific command line prompt commands, I appreciate that some commands appear to execute in both M$-DOS and NT Command Prompt, but that does not mean they are the same thing...... http://www.ss64.com/nt/
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Response Number 4
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Name: borelli35
Date: October 22, 2003 at 22:24:29 Pacific
Subject: change a DSN with DOS commands |
Reply: (edit) =======================================================
x86,
You are really splitting hairs here. If you had made an attempt to answer his question that wouldn't be the case but rather, you have chosen to pick on this question to use as your soap box for displaying your knowledge of the fact that you know there is a difference between the two. I do recognize and agree that there is a distinct difference but it is un-necessary to point it out to answer this question.Green4Ever,
The fact is (in both DOS and DOS emulation under NT OSes...and yes, there is a way to run actual DOS on these systems; it's just not straight forward. But x86 probably aready knew that.) the ipconfig command is the only real option and it is probably too limited to help you out with your problem (before you say it x86, win98, for example, can use ipconfig under an actual DOS environment if rebooted to MS-DOS prompt and a couple of steps are followed so this distinction is not completely accurate). The most you can do in your case is to purge/resolve the DNS cache, refresh leasing and re-register already existing DNS names so I guess that it depends on what you really want to do with the DNS to begin with. borelli35
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