Windows XP IP Address Boot Disk

[bpilon]

Hi,

I'm a computer technician at a high school. All of our Windows XP SP1 computers are formatted as FAT. We run our network using Netware 6 SP5 and Zenworks for Dektops 4.

We use static IP addresses opposed to DHCP. Now on rare occassions the Network cards lose their static IP address. We have the computers so that you can't bypass the Novell login screen into a stand alone environment because we don't want students accessing the local C: drive. Unfortunately, the only way to get into the machine is to have a static IP address and gateway set.

Now I have a question. Is there a boot disk that you have or that some other website might have for Windows XP SP1 (formatted as FAT) that will allow you to change the static IP address and gateway during system startup?

The reason I ask because if our network card on a Windows XP SP1 (formatted as FAT) machine loses it's static IP address we would like a boot disk or boot cd of some sort to be able to edit the static IP address or gateway at boot up.

Thanks for your time, it's greatly appreciated!

Brad

[bAdWaYz]

Hello and welcome to CTH,
I am going to transfer this to the networking forum as I believe you will get a better answer for what you are asking in there.

[Archangel122184]

No.

Unfortunately, those types of settings are in protected areas of registry and the ntfs file system. While the files stored could be access via ERD commander, a network boot disk, etc, you wouldn't be able to decrypt and modify the assembled code... it uses the windows salts to encrypt.

Your best bet is to work around Novell. First let me ask, did you guys disable the workstation only login option?