Re[2]: [OT] PC Serial numbering

["Pete Shew" <ukha_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At one company, we used the Asset tag number for the C drive volume label,
the netbios name/hostname and as an override for the MAC address (token
ring network) so that the computer was easily identified at several
levels.(I've just set my ethernet adaptor to 400000000180 which worked
fine). Changing the adaptor then didn't matter.

The trick was to run a script after ghosting the image to personalise the
computer. For existing computers we retrofitted by popping up a prompt
during logon to ask for the user's name department, asset tag info, etc.,
which personalised the compuiter and was also collected by the asset
management software..

Pete

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On 06/01/2005 at 10:16 Davey wrote:

>If it's a networked machine.. why not just use the MAC address of the
LAN
>adapter ?.
>It'll be a unique number and free but the downside is if you change the
>adapter you'll need to update your records
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>nbtstat - a nameofmachine or -A machinesIpAddress
>should nicely show you the MAC address at the bottom of the output.
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>HTH
>
>Davey
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>From: "darren_karp2001" <darren@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:45 PM
>Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] PC Serial numbering
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>> Does anyone know of any software package that can electronically
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>> a PC with a serial number which can then be used for tech support
>> tracking?
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>> TIA
>> Darren
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