etpro gu-id's

Demanufacturer · Post by **Demanufacturer** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:54 am

yo

just an inquiry in regards to etpro gu-id's

i want to set up ET to run from a lan center (coming from the same IP) which has standardised hardware (same model mobos/video cards/ram, etc) that all run from a base image. whats the best way to install/run ET in such a way that each machine has a unique etpro gu-id? (already running a launch batch which deleted the etmain etkey) - for the purpose of lanning to compete online

thanks in advance

-dman

Lagger · Post by **Lagger** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:07 am

Don't use windows 98/ME.

etpro guids appear to be a lost cause, so why bother?

ouroboro · Post by **ouroboro** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:09 am

AFAIK, it's based on the HDD serial on Windows and the MAC address on Linux. Since those will be unique even among "identical" machines*, there's no problem.

*Except on Win9x, as stated above.

Demanufacturer · Post by **Demanufacturer** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:41 am

the machines are winxp.

what triggers the creation of the gu-id? i've dumped my etpro dir from my machine, and it keeps the gu-id when copying it to another machine. what files do i delete to trigger it to be recreated for the machine?

Deus · Post by **Deus** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:36 am

etpro guids are created everytime you use ETpro IIRC.

pb guids stay the same if you copy dirs.

maybe you are confusing pbguid and etproguid

Dersaidin · Post by **Dersaidin** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:08 pm

Afaik, since the ETPro guid is based on hardware IDs, when the ETPro guid is created it should always be the same each time it is created (unless you change the hardware).

Each machine at the LAN place will have different hardware IDs so each computer will have a different one (that stays the same when its recreated).

Delete all their etkeys, so you dont get a "cdkey in use" message, and I'm not sure about pbguids, but I think you'd want to make them different too. ETPro guids should be different (on each computer) without having to do anything.

ReyalP · Post by **ReyalP** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:53 pm

bani wrote: etpro guids are unreliable and should not be used

Dersaidin · Post by **Dersaidin** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:57 am

better than nothing :>

sponge · Post by **sponge** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:23 am

But the alternative isn't nothing

ouroboro · Post by **ouroboro** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:24 pm

Useless info I discovered while reconfiguring my box: On an EIDE setup, the ETPro GUID appears to be based on the first enabled HDD on the ribbon (i.e. the slave drive, if present and enabled in Windows, will determine the GUID).