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He shots, he scores. This worked a treat. If your interested, I am using class ID to seperate the current DHCP service, which is NT based, for all the new clients that will be running XP and an active directory infrastructure.

This should do it - i think [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=No [NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1 [params.Adapter1] INFID=* [NetClients] MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient [NetServices] MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER [NetProtocols] MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP [params.MS_TCPIP] DNS=Yes UseDomainNameDevolution=No EnableLMHosts=Yes AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=Yes WINS=No NetBIOSOptions=0 DHCPClassId=xxxxxxx

Thanks for that Aaron. Turns out this patch is specific to HP (or at least the one i obtained is) and does not allow a silent install. Have decided to go down another avenue. I may not have said it before but you, and this forum, have been a big help. Cheers Cleep

Hi. Is anybody aware of the switches for kb826959. TIA

Hi. Have had a look through the posts but could not find the answer, so..... My unattended installation works fine but my client has asked for a change, he would like a DHCP Class set at build time - this is because he wants the new XP clients to collect their DHCP settings from the new AD environment. Anyway, my initial entry looked like this: [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents = Yes I thought it would be as easy as adding this: [MS_TCPIP parameters] DHCPClassId = classname But the setup is complaining about this last entry. Any ideas welcome

found this the other day ;Remove Shared Documents from My Computer [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoSharedDocuments"="1"

Hi All. I am a newbie that has been reading the posts for the past week or so. Just wanted to thank all concerned for providing all this wealth of information. I have been able to produce unattended CD, Network and RIS installations for my corporate paymasters with very little pain. In fact most of my pain has been my typo's ??? Thanks all. Cleep