Hi! Can anyone tell me how to change the computername in DOS. Is there a utility? Thank you for your answers.

Can you be a little more specific? Are you using a DOS only machine? Or do you mean via a DOS box under windows? Also are you running a network client. Thanks, -Michael

Thanks for answering Michael! I am downloading a image (Windows NT 4.0) created by drive image. To do this i am using a DOS boot disc that connects to the image share. After the image is downloaded i want to change the computername. You can do that by using sidchanger. The problem is that I want to get a dialogbox that asks me to enter a valid computername. This unkonwn utility must then check a textfile to se if I wrote a valid computername. Then I will use sidchanger to change the computername. I hope you understand my problem:-) Regards: Chandie

Chandie, What you want to do depends on whether or not Ghost Walker (Norton's SID & computer name changing utility) will accept switches. If it doesn't, then there's no need to do any more research. Do a gwalker /? or gwalker /h at a dos prompt to see if gives you any command line options. (I would do it myself but I am at home and I don't have a copy of Ghost here). Hope that helps, -Michael

NT input routine Originally given by Walter Zachery, improved by Clay Calvert. @echo off echo. echo Enter Input: for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ( 'format/f:160 a: ^|find "..."') do set Imput=%%a set Input=%Input:~30% This approach will spin the floppy drive, but won't change anything. The drive does not need to be occupied. Watch for wrapped lines! More NT stuff here: http://home7.inet.tele.dk/batfiles/main/ntbatch.htm