Excluding an IP Range

[oneworld]

Can you configure SMS 2.0 to not discover an IP address range so that certain clients will not be initially discovered? The scenario that I am facing is the is an IP address range that is devoted to dial in client. This company does not want to discover these clients. Is this possible?<br>
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Thanks

 

[GuitarRon]

I'm running into the same problem. Dial-In clients are getting the SMS Client stuff (<b><i>16+ MBs!</b></i>) over their 33k and 56k modems. I suspect the reason is that our 3com Modem Dial-In exists within the same subnet as the Site Server.<br><br>I thought that Slownet.exe was supposed to stop this, but apparently not.<br><br>I'd rather just exclude IPs. Suggestions anyone?

 

[Rolstead]

Use a different IP address range for the RAS address pool.<br><br>John

 

[ticklz]

To exclude servers or w/stns, start the registry editor on the site server, navigate to<br><br>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Components<br><br>From the edit menu, create a new key called<br>SMS_DISCOVERY_DATA_MANAGER<br><br>From the edit menu again, with this new key highlighted, click on 'Add Value' and use the following values:-<br><br>Value name:- ExcludeServers<br>Data type, choose:- REG_MULTI_SZ<br><br>Click OK and from the Multi string editor, list the names of all the workstations you want excluded from receiving client software from SMS (one name per line).<br><br>Close the registry editor.<br><br><br><br>Hope this helps.<br>

 

[GuitarRon]

Thanks for the responses. The IP address range for the RAS pool is a difficult choice in my environment. But might be my only alternative.<br><br>As to the registry info, thanks, Lola for that. As I understand it, this only excludes NT Workstations and Servers, not (as is my case) for Win9x clients. (Too bad!)&nbsp;&nbsp;:/