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RE: Naming Netboot Clients

Mike,

I never messed with netboot clients like your setup, the only time I have used and still use netboot is to use Netrestore from Mike Bombich. www.bombich.com to image machines.

But on my master image I have it setup that on first boot after being reimaged it looks at a file on a webserver and according to the computers MAC address it names itself. I'm not sure if this would work or not for a netboot network setup. I don't see why it wouldn't.....it goes by MAC address so it should work.

Here is where I got the scripts and stuff.....
http://www.macosxlabs.org/tools_and_scripts/script_archive/script_archive.html

Go under the University of Iowa section and get "Computer Name". And you also have to download and install ncutil the link is included there also.

For the file on the webserver just make a plain text file and the MAC address of the machine and then a space and then the name you want for the machine. Important thing to remember are any letters must be lower case and only a single space between the MAC and name.

Example:

83:ad:32:33:43 PowerMac04
77:33:da:33:33 PowerMac05
etc...
....

I can't thank the person who wrote that and put in out for the public! Its a time saver big time!!

Thanks,

Dan Ball
Pittsburgh Technical Institute

-----Original Message-----
Message: 21
Subject: Naming Netboot Clients
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:08:20 -0400
From: "Mike Fort" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>

I have been trying to name client machines something other than NetBoot001. In the documentation there are clues/suggestions that this can be done. According to the documentation, 'man bootpd', the section for /config/NetBootServer shows the machine_name_format attribute which seems to be where 'NetBoot001' is defined. Since this is not defined in my NetInfo database, I am sure that it must be the default.

In the 'man bootpd' section immediately following, BOOTP/DHCP Static Bindings, it suggests that I can define everything that I want to for hosts. Choosing an ethernet address, ip address, and machine name. The trouble is when I configure this on the server, the client does not use this information! It still uses the NetBoot001. The computer name is NetBoot001 and the hostname is Administrators-computer.local (which is from the imaged/cloned drive).

I thought the routers DHCP server was getting in the way, so I disabled the feature and rebooted the world. Still no luck.

I would like to name computers with the classroom and table number, because NetBoot001 isn't much help from finding the machine. Also, am I able to differentiate the machine on Remote Access if all the machines automatically log into a local account (defined on the NetBoot image)? Won't all the users look like the same person?

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