I also leave the nodename out of dsm.opt.
I have both Win95 and WinNT 4.0 clients.

Under Win95 you find the system name in Control
Panel->Network->Identification

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>From:  Leonard Boyle[SMTP:SNOLEN AT vm.sas DOT com]
>Sent:  Thursday, January 16, 1997 2:19 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       Re: Automated nodename setting on PC's for adsm
>
>On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:27:58 -0500 operator said:
>>  I have just started upgrading our PC clients and I would like to know if
>>there is a way to automate filling in the nodename field in the dsm.opt
>>files.
>> I have built the default dsm.opt files and put them in the config directory
>>(works fine), but I would like to avoid having to edit dsm.opt after every
>>install (400 machines).  On unix this is easy, but how about for NT/Win95?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Ron Prine
>
>Hello Ron
>
>If you leave the nodename statement out of the dsm.opt file on Windows NT
>then it will use the windows nt computer name. I am not sure if this will
>work for Win95 also.
>
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