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PC-Duo Host Guide

 -y do not ask for confirmation; default is to prompt before continuing

 -yes same as „-y‟

 -guid deletes the HostID only, but does not prepare the settings

 -restart restarts the Host Service when compute; should only be used with „-guid‟

To prepare an installation for imaging, run hostprep.exe with no arguments, and press

the “y” key when prompted.

To delete the HostID on the local computer and cause a new one to be assigned

immediately, run the command line “hostprep.exe –guid –restart”.

HostPrep runs on all of the operating systems supported by the Host.

Remove duplicate Host IDs

If the Host has been deployed using an imaging tool, and one or more Hosts are not

found by the Gateway, you may have a duplicate HostID problem. In this case, the

Gateway recognizes the first Host machine with the HostID but ignores any other

machines with the same HostID. To resolve this situation, thevides a utility called

RmHostID; it appears in the the Utilities file.

The RmHostID utility runs on one computer and searches one or more computers for

Host installations that have a specified HostID. If a matching HostID is found, the HostID

is deleted and the Host Service restarted so that a new ID will be assigned. This utility

can be used to “clean up” Host installations with duplicate IDs on a LAN.

RmHostID command line syntax

RmHostID accepts command line flags that control its behavior:

 -p prompt for confirmation before deleting HostID

 -prompt same as „-p‟

 -? displays help text describing how to use RmHostID

RmHostID expects two arguments (in addition to any flags) on its command line. The first

argument specifies which HostIDs should be considered duplicates, and therefore should

be deleted. The second argument specifies which machine or machines should be

examined.

The HostID specification (first argument) can be one of:

 A specific GUID, in the form “{C8E645A4-AF10-46f7-838B-A75105C8AA13}”

 A star (“*”), signifying that all HostIDs found should be deleted

 An at sign (“@”) followed immediately by a filename. This causes the specified file to

be read, and each line should contain a single GUID.

The machine‟s specification (second argument) can be one of:

 If the machine specification is missing, the local machine is checked

 A specific machine name, as either a NetBIOS machine name or a DNS name

 A star (“*”), which instructs RmHostID to enumerate all machines on the network

 An at sign (“@”) followed immediately by a filename. This causes the specified file to

be read, and each line should contain a single machine name (as either a NetBIOS

machine name or a DNS name).

Examples:

1 2 ... 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 ... 146 147

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