Also talk about the use of Ghost's multicast function to manage the school room

The author's school room uses the Founder Wenxiang E320 series models, the machine itself comes with Founder Blue Card, you can achieve network copy and system restore function. However, during the process of use, it was found that its system restore function is not perfect. Taking into account the convenience of management, the author removed the restore card, and installed the Restore Wizard 5.0 to restore the student machine. Later, the restore wizard was uninstalled for some reason, and it was not installed in time. In just one day, the student machine software failed frequently. The author thinks of two ways to solve the above problems:

Method 1: Remove the student machine hard disk, use Ghost software to clone one by one, and then set the IP address and other parameters.

Method 2: Reinstall the restore card and use the included software for network copying.

But the above two methods are in trouble after all, they need to open the case to operate, and the time is tight, so they have to find another way. I recently read the old newspapers and found an article in the B4 edition of the 14th edition of the "China Computer Education News" this year, "Using the Ghost multicast function to make the management of the computer room easier." The situation described in this article is very similar to the problem encountered this time. Then, follow the steps described in the article to install. In the specific implementation process, the author used a number of different methods to simplify the entire installation process:

1. In the article "Usage" mentioned preparing a DOS boot disk for each computer, and Ghost. Copy the exe and Rtspkt.exe files to a floppy disk. However, the DOS boot disk is not very convenient to make. If the boot disk is created under Windows 98, the capacity is obviously insufficient. Therefore, the author copied these two files to each student machine through the network, and then proceeded to the next step, eliminating the trouble of making the boot disk.

2. In the article "Utilization", it is mentioned that a file with the extension .cfg is created for each multicast terminal. From the content of the file, we can see that the purpose is for each multicast. The terminal configures an IP address and uses the "Set Ghostip=%*.cfg" command in the batch command created later to implement IP address allocation. However, in the implementation process, there are two problems:

(1) If you use the batch file created in the article "Usage", the system will swallow the "%" symbol when executed under DOS. , that is, the screen display statement does not show "%" when the command is executed. If we don't use a batch file, but enter the command step by step, the above problem will not occur.

(2) According to the method mentioned in the article, after running Ghost and selecting "Ghostcast→Multicast", the following error message will appear:

Application Error Start TCP/IP

Can''t find DHCP Server

Possible Network Setup Problem

This is puzzling. According to the steps described in the article, we have set the IP address for each multicast terminal, and the above error message should not appear. The error message means that the DHCP server could not be found, so I immediately added the DHCP function to Windows 2000 Server, created a new scope, and set the start and end IP addresses to activate them. After that, go to the student machine to execute Ghost, just skip the "Set ghostip=%*.cfg" step, do not manually specify the IP address, but let the DHCP server automatically assign an IP address to them. After the above settings, the student machine can finally log in to the Ghost multicast server through the automatically obtained IP address.

The above schemes were tested in the Windows 2000 Server + Ghost7.5 Chinese Enterprise Edition environment, and the inadequacies, please ask the teacher to correct me.