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Having problems scripting Netdom to rename systems - 8/19/2008 6:33:55 PM

swood

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I'm running a batch file to rename a system - the command looks like

for /f "delims= tokens=1" %%a IN currentname.txt DO Netdom RenameComputer
%computername% /NewName: %%a /UserD:mydomain\admin /PasswordD:mypassword

I have a computer name called in currentname.txt which I want to fill in after /NewName. When I run the command it looks like this...

for /f "delims= tokens=1" %a IN currentname.txt DO netdom RenameComputer OLDCOMPUTER /NewName:%a /UserD:domain\admin /passwordD:password

I can't figure out why the script doesn't pull the text value from the text file and instead return %a.
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RE: Having problems scripting Netdom to rename systems - 8/19/2008 8:33:22 PM

jsandys

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Are you running the FOR command from a command line to test it? If so, the syntax is slightly different: from a command line you use %variable, in a batch file you use %%variable.

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RE: Having problems scripting Netdom to rename systems - 8/20/2008 12:12:43 PM

swood

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Acually I'm running it in a batch file from a UNC path. I found that if I ran this from the actual user machine, at the cmd prompt it ran successfully

for /f %a IN ('type currentname.txt') DO netdom RenameComputer
%computername% /NewName:%a /UserD:domain\admin /passwordD:password

I may have to change things so the script will run on the client instead of from our network.

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RE: Having problems scripting Netdom to rename systems - 8/26/2008 12:31:32 PM

ndaniels

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My guess is that the reason it is failing when you run it from the UNC path is that the batch file is defaulting to the Windows directory and the text file you are attempting to process does not reside there. If you specify the UNC path to your text file, it would most likely work...

for /f %a IN ('type "\\server\share\folder\currentname.txt"') DO ...

This may also be of assistance...
http://www.myitforum.com/forums/%25%7Edp0_variable/m_178011/tm.htm#178062

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