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I've nearly finished helping make an unattended disk but I cannot get the DNS set via WINNT.SIF. To check I've got the syntax right I've made an unattend.txt file with setupmgr and the entries look the same?

The (relevant?) extract from my SIF file is below. Is there something I'm missing? For example is there a change in SP2 that I haven't picked up? Is it just getting late in the week and I need a rest?

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents = No

[NetAdapters]
Adapter01=params.Adapter01

[params.Adapter01]
INFID=*

[NetClients]
MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]
MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[params.MS_MSClient]

[NetProtocols]
MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]
AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter01

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter01]
SpecificTo=Adapter01
DHCP=Yes
DNSServerSearchOrder=10.1.2.3,192.168.1.1,192.168.1.100
WINS=Yes
WinsServerList=10.1.2.4

There is no DNS server on this site so I need to point to a DNS server at "head office" and the ISP and I'm fed up with setting this on every PC and every build.

HELP ME!!

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I don't know if this makes any difference is, that my Network-adapter is named:

AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

It's the only diffenrence, I can see in my config. By the way, I think that since SP2 nothing has changed in the winnt.sif concerning the network configuration.

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Thanks Doc,

I've seen both labels used in posts or reference material, so I treated it as a label. However, I have changed the label and it makes no difference, the settings are still ignored.

I've been testing this prior to live use, on VMWare and a laptop with a PCMCIA NIC. Maybe the SIF settings are set before the drivers are loaded and therefore overwritten/ignored when they are loaded? Getting a bit frustrated with this as it should be so simple! :wacko:

Can anybody else shed some light?

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