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To: J R KARY who wrote (25082)	6/7/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

<<NetBoot is by far the most compelling feature, it lets you boot Macintosh clients from the network. >> You can do that on an NT network already. (Most NT geeks don't know how, and MSFT does not condone it.) The key is know the "MAC address (MAC - not to be confused with Macintosh - nothing to do with it) of the PC's network card. You can have a PC that is completely powered down and using this MAC address, send a ping to the network card which in turn sends a slight surge to the power-on circuit in the PC (yes, it depends on what kind of PC you have). This wakes up the machine. From here, you can logon and push software upgrades to it with SMS. You can also do a netboot with machines that have NO hard drive. However, being Windows NT it will be greatly hampered in terms of speed. -Bill_H